From: John (Eljay) Love-Jensen (eljay@adobe.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2010 - 08:28:07 CST
Hi Doug and everyone,
> "Proposal" implies that someone has written a formal proposal, intended for submission. Isn't that a bit premature?
I think in this context, "proposal" carried the weaker semantic of "inquiry initiating a discussion which may ultimately result in a formal proposal".
After looking at canIPA, I like what I see there as having potential. And his discussion of IPA and its history, versus canIPA was interesting to me.
> I agree with Karl: so far the new letters look like one man's invention, yet to be adopted by anyone else.
I agree with Doug and Karl.
My 2 cents, as I understand it. Since Unicode is (nominally?) reactively driven by real world usage and legacy compatibility, rather than trying to be an agent of change*, it would be a bit premature to incorporate canIPA into Unicode at this time.
Sincerely,
--Eljay
* Having a unified encoding itself facilitates global communication and interoperability. And global communication and interoperability themselves are an agent of change in their own right. That's a plenty big enough charter itself!
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