From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 22:19:17 EST
Chris Fynn <cfynn at gmx dot net> quoted Robert R. Chilton <acip at well
dot com>:
>> As noted above, the character set of n2558 does not even fully
>> support usages of Tibetan script in regions outside of China.
>> (The notation of "Worldwide" in question 5 of the Part C.:
>> Technical-Justification in the Proposal Summary Form is thus
>> highly misleading.)
The authors of N2558 are not alone in treating the
Technical-Justification section of the WG2 proposal form as a casual,
"truth-optional" zone.
On October 23 I wrote to complain about N2507, the proposal by the
National Taitung (Taiwan) Teachers College to encode 42 precomposed
Latin letters to support a romanization of the Taiwanese Holo language.
In answer to question 7a, "Can the characters be considered a
presentation form of an existing character or character sequence?" the
authors wrote "Yes for *some* of the precomposed characters" (my
emphasis), even though the answer would clearly be yes for all if
COMBINING RIGHT DOT, also proposed, were encoded or otherwise
accommodated.
On December 5, I wrote about N2513, a proposal from the Hong Kong SAR to
encode (among other things) four precomposed Latin letters for use in
Pinyin transliterations. Again, in response to question 9, "Can any of
the proposed characters be encoded using a composed character sequence
of either existing characters or other proposed characters?" the answer
was "No" even though the proposed character names were all of the form
"LATIN {case} LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND {diacritic_2}" and had
obvious decompositions.
The Hong Kong paper also says that the tool used to create reference
glyphs will be "EUDCEDIT bundled in Microsoft Traditional Chinese
Windows 98" even though EUDCEDIT generates bitmaps and the proposal form
states clearly that only TrueType or PostScript fonts are acceptable.
I wonder if such blatant falsification on the standard proposal
questionnaire catches the attention of WG2 member bodies. If a college
paper included obvious errors of fact on the first page, it would surely
reduce the final grade even if the rest of the paper contained excellent
analysis and conclusions.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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