Re: Character set cluelessness

Eg, in http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/locode/gr.htm

Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mark Davis ☕ <mark_at_macchiato.com> wrote:

> I tend to agree. What would be useful is to have one column for the city
> in the local language (or more columns for multilingual cities), but it is
> extremely useful to have an ASCII version as well.
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rosenne <
> jonathan.rosenne_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't agree with the criticism. These place name are there to be
>> readable by a wide audience, rather than writable by locals and
>> specialists. They require the lowest common denominator.****
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>> *From:* unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *john knightley
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 6:35 PM
>> *To:* Doug Ewell
>> *Cc:* unicode_at_unicode.org; locode_at_unece.org
>> *Subject:* Re: Character set cluelessness****
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>> Sad to say this seems to be close to the norm for all to many large
>> organizations where if it isn't in the 1990's version of the Times Roman
>> font then it's out. ****
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>> On 3 Oct 2012 00:26, "Doug Ewell" <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:****
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>> The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has released a
>> new version of UN/LOCODE, and their Secretariat Note document is just as
>> clueless as ever about character set usage in international standards:
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>> "Place names in UN/LOCODE are given in their national language versions
>> as expressed in the Roman alphabet using the 26 characters of the
>> character set adopted for international trade data interchange, with
>> diacritic signs, when practicable (cf. Paragraph 3.2.2 [sic; should be
>> 3.3.2] of the UN/LOCODE Manual). International ISO Standard character
>> sets are laid down in ISO 8859-1 (1987) and ISO10646-1 (1993). (The
>> standard United States character set (437), which conforms to these ISO
>> standards, is also widely used in trade data interchange)."
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>> It's 2012. How does one get through to folks like this? I tried writing
>> to them a few years ago, but I don't think they were impressed by an
>> individual contribution.
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>> http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html
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>> Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
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Received on Tue Oct 02 2012 - 16:56:02 CDT