Re: Character Repertoire vs. Encoding Issues in EU

Of course this is regrettable. The efforts that were demanded was not
about encoding, but about doumenting recommanded usages for best
representing texts in various languages.

I hope that the European Union will instead refocus its project to
cooperate in the CLDR projet, instead of abandoning it completely. I
hope that some day the European Union will become an active member of
the CLDR TC, because there is still LOT of work to do, and a large
demand for it for an extended period (if not permanent).

2012/11/10 Erkki I Kolehmainen <eik_at_iki.fi>:
> FYI: After a very long process the European Commission has rejected the
> standardization project for “Core Character repertoire” (that was also
> presented at IUC 34) with the following rationale:
>
> “As the Unicode standard includes all the standard characters needed in all
> official EU languages as well as almost all characters needed in most of the
> world’s writing systems, it is difficult to see what benefits there would be
> in implementing a specialisation of Unicode only for EU languages.
>
> “In addition, the problems described in the proposal are related to
> non-implementation of this standard, and a new one would not change these
> problems.
>
> It would appear from the above that the Commission is regrettably unaware of
> the difference between encoding and character repertoire issues and the
> extensive work needed to be done with confusables and other security aspects
> of Unicode as well as of the need for guidance on the fallback mechanisms
> required in several instances. Unfortunately, since the said
> “specialisation” is ultimately required for the implementation of public
> registers in each country for both their own use and also for the much
> needed interoperability between EU member states, they’ll have to do it on
> their own without the benefits of a joint standardization effort.
Received on Sat Nov 10 2012 - 18:27:36 CST