From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 15:04:08 CDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Asmus Freytag
> As a matter of basic parity, I just don't
> see why we take such great pains to standardize extremely rare forms
of Han
> ideographs, but baulk at supporting our own writing system and its
> extensions equally faithfully.
Point taken.
> That doesn't mean that we stop asking all the hard questions, but that
we
> allow a presumption of usefulness for characters that were in
demonstrated
> use over some time and by several authors.
But it is precisely that status that is called into question here.
Unless your definition of "several" is '>=1'.
Peter
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division
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