Re: Cost per character?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 11:52:56 EDT


Well, we could probably not charge that to Unicode or ISO, though. Maybe you
could add travel costs and other expenses for attendees of conferences? <g>

michka

----- Original Message -----
From: <Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: RE: Cost per character?

> Christopher J. Fynn wrote:
> > Leaving aside implementation costs - has anyone ever come up
> > with a good
> > estimate of the cost per character for the development of the
> > Unicode / ISO
>
> A scaring figure it must be! And imagine what the amount would grow up to
if
> you add the cost of developing writing system during the last eight
> millennia (man/hours employed, cost of clay tablets or papyrus, etc.).
>
> _ Marco
>



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