From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 17:49:40 EST
At 02:13 PM 12/23/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
>Rick and I and Ken have all explained our position already. You're doing
>nothing but stirring up a whole bunch of stuff that we aren't working on
>now, and that we aren't going to be working on soon. You're not asking us
>to deal with anything actionable, and this is keeping us from doing work
>which IS actionable and necessary. We have received Peter Kirk's request
>for review. I moved Aramaic to the SMP. That doesn't mean that we will
>ever encode it. It does mean that further research is required. I do not
>have time or resources to invest in the work required to handle this
>request right now.
Michael, I think you are missing the point that other people do have time
and resources to devote to 'further research' at this time, and this is why
these discussions are happening. Personally, I'm happy to accept that the
position of Aramaic in the roadmap is an open issue and is going to remain
so, but as Elaine pointed out there is a lot of interest in Unicode among
Biblical scholars right now -- which is a Good Thing -- and some of these
people are wanting to start addressing some of the questions and issues
that they are confronting as they proceed. I don't think this means you
personally need to do anything -- or Rick or Ken -- but there are going to
be some proposals developed for additional Hebrew characters, and some
documents on different approaches to unifying or not unifying the
bewildering array of early semitic writing systems, and these will be
submitted via the proper channels and will eventually end up in the UTC's
lap. Hopefully the work that is done -- by the people who are ready and
willing to do it now -- will be helpful and well presented: up to the high
standards for proposals that you have set. But will also be evidence that
you don't need to do everything yourself.
JH
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Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
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