L2/04-056
From: Niek Veldhuis
Date: 2004-01-31 21:01:38 -0800
To: rick@unicode.org
Subject: Cuneiform Unicode

Dear Rick McGown,

My name is Niek Veldhuis, I am professor of Assyriology at UC Berkeley and 
Director of the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts project 
(cdli.ucla.edu/dcclt/dcclt.html). I am very excited about the upcoming meeting 
of the Unicode team where a proposal by Prof. Steve Tinney will be discussed. 
Working in lexical lists (basically the tools the ancients used for teaching 
their own writing system) I am very much aware of the complexities involved 
both in their synchronic and diachronic aspects. I am very happy with the 
proposal that Prof. Tinney has submitted and I believe that there is no other 
person who could represent the interests of my field in a Unicode forum than 
Steve. I wholeheartedly endorse his proposal and hope that the committee will 
do the same.

Yours sincerely,

Niek

Niek Veldhuis
UC Berkeley
Department of Near Eastern Studies
280 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1940
510-642-6175