From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 16:32:39 EST
Peter Lofting asked:
> Presumedly the present proposal of 900+ stacks is a maturation of the
> same system. And the claim for universality is based on it being able
> to typeset everything they have published to-date.
It is based on the Founders system software, as Michael mentioned.
> The question is
> whether that list of texts is representative of the full literary and
> linguistic corpus
It is not.
> or is only a sub-set?
It is. The Chinese delegation admitted that the collection of stacks
was aimed at modern Tibetan use and would not cover literary Tibetan.
This means that in practice systems based on the current Founders
system technology would be restricted in their coverage, and that
Unicode-based systems would have to deal with *both* the precomposed
stacks and with the rest of Tibetan, leading to Hangul-like
normalization nightmares.
> Could the Chinese be asked to provide detailed information on this
> system and the texts that it has published so we can get an idea of
> the domain that their stack set covers?
They were asked some questions during the meeting. The correct
way to proceed now is to provide national body feedback on their
proposal. Such feedback can, of course, contain such questions
regarding the intended scope of coverage of the repertoire in
the proposal.
--Ken
>
> Peter Lofting
>
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