RE: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 05:03:03 EST


Besides numbers, also *examples* could catch the attention.
What about asking Frank da Cruz (and/or Ethan Mollick,
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~igp/glass.html) to allow using the "I can eat glass"
text in his UTF8 test page (http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html)?

_Marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark.davis@us.ibm.com [SMTP:mark.davis@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: 2000 January 19, Wednesday 20.41
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Unicode 3.0 press statements
>
>
>
> We will be issuing a press release for Unicode 3.0, and I am working with
> a
> press agent now. One thing that she was discussing is that it is very
> useful to include numbers in the statements; it catches the journalist's
> attentions. What she would like to see are statements like:
>
> Covers 95% of all world languages
> Covers 99% of all languages used in commerce
> etc.
>
> I thought it would be useful to query this group for sample statements
> along these lines, statements that would both:
>
> a) catch people's attention
> b) be true!
>
> For example, "scripts" don't mean anything to the average Joe; "languages"
> or "countries" do. Yet our focus is in the Consortium is on scripts: I
> don't know what percent of the language coverage we have (some of you may
> have a better notion). On the other hand, I have no doubt that in terms of
> the percentage of text currently represented in computers, that Unicode
> covers over 99% of the usage. So, sometimes the statements have to be
> worded appropriately.
>
> Mark
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