Asmus> You wrote:
>> Asmus, thanks for the description.
>>
>> What was going to be our proposal to the UTC will now simply be
>> submitted to the mailing list after an internal review. Rick
>> McGowan kindly reminded me that language identification is not
>> really within the scope of the Unicode Standard.
Asmus> There is growing recognition that there are subjects
Asmus> closely related to the subject matter of the Unicod
Asmus> Standard proper, for which a work-item in the UTC would
Asmus> meet the interest of the membership. Let me make clear that
Asmus> Unicode will consider these situations carefully, but is
Asmus> open to proposals resulting in new work items. In case of
Asmus> lanuguage identifiers, this discussion keeps re-surfacing
Asmus> and therefore it might well become appropriate to consider
Asmus> some form of Unicode publication, perhaps a technical
Asmus> report. For this matter to make progress you would need to
Asmus> find support in the membership as well as find one or more
Asmus> volunteers to do the technical work in between
Asmus> meetings. One thing I could see as useful would be to
Asmus> publish a survey of existing schemes along with any new
Asmus> proposal meeting the demands I outlined in my last
Asmus> mail. Your mailing has generated some responses already
Asmus> that might be useful.
Hmm. Some more work might make it reasonably complete enough to
submit to the UTC.
Asmus> PS: were you planning to attend the Unicode Conference?
Yes. I'll be there.
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