From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 16:53:27 EST
On 01/03/2004 13:19, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
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>>I understand that there have been previous attempts to define a new or
>>extended Cyrillic 8-but character set supporting Central Asian
>>languages, but that such proposals have been rejected. I hardly think
>>that Aso would have turned to the Unicode list if he wanted to define an
>>8-bit encoding.
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>I understand that it has been rejected for inclusion in an international
>standard, but still this does not forbid Tadjikistan to define its own national
>8-bit standard for writing Tajik in Cyrillic... In the hope that this standard
>would promote the support for the characters (missing in the Cyrillic version of
>ISO-8859) and initiate the commercial support of appropriate keyboards and
>softwares for this Tajik variant.
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>If Tajikistan defines this standard, it will get its right of entry into the
>IANA database of charsets, and Unicode will have to support a complete mapping
>for it (if characters are missing), whever it likes it or not, and even if this
>standard is not accepted in a chapter of the ISO 8859 international standard...
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>There's no contradiction here: Tajikistan has the right to define what are its
>own needs for its own official language; going to an international standard can
>come later, once Tajikistan has proven that it helped promote the correct
>support of its language by various software and hardware solutions (keyboards,
>fonts, sorting and collating in relational databases, transcoders, filesystem
>file names, various communication tools including low-cost ones with limited
>processing resources like mobile phones and SMS messaging...).
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Aha, here's my way to get the characters I want into Unicode although
they have been rejected! I find some near-bankrupt island state and
persuade (with a little financial lubrication) its government to set up
an official standards committee with me as the chair. I then issue an
official national standard including the characters I want to get into
Unicode. And, from what you say, Unicode will be obliged to accept my
characters.
:-)
As for Tajikistan, don't go off into wild speculations about what they
might want, but let them say.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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