At 11:25 -0800 5/15/2000, Michael Everson wrote:
>Ar 09:57 -0800 2000-05-09, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
>
> >There are no guarantees, but no one in the UTC or WG2 is competing to
> >create a longer name. There are no specified length limits in the naming
> >rules that WG2 follows, but the committee has watchdogs who try to keep
> >the names shorter, when possible. Furthermore, since the longest existing
> >names are compatibility Arabic ligatures, and since WG2 has vowed not to
> >encode any more Arabic ligatures, we are unlikely to see longer names.
>
>Unless we name Egyptian hieroglyphs in any other way but their catalogue
>names. Compare:
>
>ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF MAKSURA
>ISOLATED FORM
>
>with
>
>EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC SIGN RECUMBANT CROCODILE WITH NORTHERN KINGDOM
RECUMBENT
>HEADDRESS AND FLAGELLUM
AND HIPPOPOTAMUS BELOW
>
>:-)
>
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There was a bit of that sort of thing on alt.fan.pratchett about
three years ago. The sort of extended in-joke his novels tend to
inspire among the faithful. They're the ones with the ANKH-MORPORK
TAVERN SIGN FOUR ELEPHANTS STANDING LOOKING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
ON THE TURTLE GREAT A'TUIN WHILE HOLDING A DISC-SHAPED WORLD ON THEIR
BACKS[TM]. That's a commercial logo, of course, seen only at the
Elephants and Turtle, so we don't have to worry about it. The more
immediate question is, Who's buying?
Ed Cherlin <cherlin@cauce.org> <http://www.cauce.org>
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