From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@nic.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2006 - 06:39:44 CST
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:40:51AM +0000,
Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote
a message of 28 lines which said:
> >Encoding requests are very often accompanied by political
> >statements (the N'ko is, again, a good example). Unicode should be
> >about the facts (charecters in use), not about what you think of
> >the political agenda of the people who request it.
>
> N'Ko was not encoded for "political" reasons.
I never said so. I said that N'ko was encoded *despite* (or
*regardless of*) the (noisy) political agenda of its promoters. (Doug
Ewell basically said that Unicode should not encode CC symbols because
CC activists have a political agenda - something which is true but,
IMHO, irrelevant.)
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