From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 13:35:57 EST
Dean Snyder asserted:
> >No, we do not need to rehearse the pros and cons of the "dynamic"
> >model for Cuneiform already. Abundant evidence for why it has not
> >been chosen has already been presented.
>
> But NO ONE mentioned free variation selectors in the discussion until
> yesterday.
This is not the case. *I* mentioned free variation selectors
during both of the ICE meetings. They weren't discussed at any
great length, precisely because I and the other encoding experts
did not feel that they were applicable to the basic encoding issues
of Cuneiform.
They may have a place in some future refinement of Cuneiform, but
only for representation of notable variants of the *statically*
encoded list of base signs, *not* for the kind of dynamic sign
building that you have been advocating.
--Ken
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