....I understand only better why a significant majority of UTC is hating French.
Francophobia is also palpable in Canada, beyond any technical reasons, especially in the IT industry. Hence the position of UTC is far from isolated. If ethic and personal considerations inflect decision-making, they should consistently be an integral part of discussions here. In that vein, Iβd mention that by the time when Unicode was developed, there was a global hatred against France, that originated in French colonial and foreign politics since WWII, and was revived a few years ago by the French government sinking π ππππππ€Β πππππππ and killing the crewβs photographer, in the port of Auckland. That crime triggered a peak of anger.
Again, my recollections do not support any issues of Francophobia.
The Unicode Technical committee has always
had French people on board, from the beginning, and I have
witnessed no issues where they took up a different technical
position based on language. Quite the opposite, the UTC
generally appreciates when someone can provide native insights
into the requirements for supporting a given language. How best
to realize these requirements then becomes a joint effort.
If anything, the Unicode Consortium saw itself from the beginning in contrast to an IT culture for which internationalization at times was still something of an afterthought.
Given all that, I find your suggestions andΒ implications deeply hurtful and hope you will find a way to avoid a repetition in the future.
May I suggest that trying to rake over the past and apportion blame is generally less productive than moving forward and addressing the outstanding problems.
A./
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