Re: Endangered Alphabets

I think you want ISO 2022.

In any event, this will never happen in Unicode, because this is the exact opposite of what Unicode is all about, unless I misunderstand you. Unicode's goal is for every code unit to have a fixed interpretation. So far as many people involved in the original design of Unicode, code pages were a disaster.

srivas sinnathurai 於 2011年8月19日 上午7:14 寫道：

> PUA is not structured and not officially programmable to accommodate numerous code pages.
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> Take the ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, and so on .....
> These are now allocating the same code points to many languages and for other purposes.
> Similarly, a structured and official allocations to any many requirements can be done using the same codes, say 16,000 of them.
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> Sinnathurai
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> On 19 August 2011 13:53, Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
> In what way is this not what the PUA is all about?
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> From: srivas sinnathurai
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:13
> To: Michael Everson
> Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion ; unicore UnicoRe Discussion
> Subject: Re: Endangered Alphabets
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> This is about time we allocate a significant space withi the Unicode code space to work in the old fashion code page provisioning mode.
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> I'm not calling for any change to existing major aloocations. However, this is about time we allocate (not PUA) large number of codes to a code page based sub codes so that not only all 7000+ languages can Freely use it without INTERFERENCE from Unicode and have the freedom to carry out research works, like we were doing with the legacy 8bit codes.
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> All those in favour of creating code pages, please say yes, and others please say why not.
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> Kind Regards
> Sinnathurai Srivas
> On 19 August 2011 10:55, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
> I'd like to invite everyone to support this worthwhile project:
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> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1496420787/the-endangered-alphabets-project/
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> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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