From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun May 10 2009 - 21:50:45 CDT
Quoting "Mark Davis" <mark.edward.davis@gmail.com>:
> Michael is correct.
>
> There is no guarantee that a character accepted into Unicode will be
> accepted into ISO 10646.
>
> Nor is there any guarantee that a character accepted into ISO 10646 will be
> accepted into Unicode.
>
> That being said, both committees see the value of synchronization, and have
> always worked together towards it. The proposal forms are unified, as are
> the policies and procedures. So submission can be to either body. Because
> the UTC meets more often, it may be useful to submit there first so as to
> get more discussion; and any characters that have unusual properties or
> other behavior are best first submitted to the UTC, since that is the place
> for the definition of the character properties and algorithms that are
> ultimately used by computer systems to support the characters.
>
However in pratice the process is that proposals submitted to the UTC
are then submitted to WG2, where changes both small and large are a
matter of course, but that after proposals leave WG2 for SC2 they are
never changed. Many proposals quiet correctly go directly to WG2.
John
> Mark
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 02:30, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9 May 2009, at 04:26, Christopher Fynn wrote:
>>
>> Do proposals now need to be submitted to the UTC for consideration before
>>> they are submitted to WG2??
>>>
>>
>> NO, they do NOT.
>>
>>
>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>>
>>
>>
>
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