On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Rick McGowan wrote:
> If memory serves me, Unicode and 10646 were already well established
> at the time both this standard and the IBM standards containing "tail
> fragment" were created (one of the code pages shown in the proposal
> even has a Euro sign in it!). At least one of the IBM pages could
> have been created without this tail fragment, and they work around it
> already in Unicode interchanges. The Iraninan standards could
> likewise have been created without the "rial" ligature.
But the day for final approval of that Iranian standard has been May 1993
(even before Unicode 1.1). The comittee should have been created long
before that, they may have not heard of it, or did not understand why they
should move directly from 7-bits to 16-bits with the limited software and
hardware available in Iran at that time...
Oh, I just found it! It's also encoded as a character in the national
standard ISIRI 2900, dated 1989 (which is a 7-bit character set standard).
I will update the proposal. So you can be sure that you have not disobeyed
the rules ;)
> My point is that we should really stop adding stuff like this, and people
> who know better should stop asking for these questionable characters.
Please. I'm pushing these only to be able to push Iran to adopt Unicode as
/the/ standard charset.
> And of course, people should stop making an endless supply of new
> local codesets, etc...
That's the thing I'm pushing in Iran. Not using or creating legacy
codesets anymore, but using Unicode/10646 instead.
> It appears that all a member company or country has to do to get
> whatever they want into Unicode/10646 is make up a new national or
> corporate standard with their thing, wait a year for it to become a
> "legacy", and then ask for it.
Please note that we have not done that. Waiting 8 years (or 12 if you
count ISIRI 2900)?
> Just my opinion. Other than that rant, it's probably reasonable to add
> the Rial sign ligature, in amongst all the other compatibility stuff in
> Arabic.
Thanks...
(Oh, what a marathon! I did not think it will be this hard. Next opponent
please! ;)))
--roozbeh
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