From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 19:15:00 EST
Tom Gewecke wrote at 2:26 PM on Sunday, January 18, 2004:
>>>It took Devanagiri to show me the NATURE of the technical problem posed
>>>by a dynamic encoding for cuneiform; it took Mongolian to show me that
>>>the problem HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLVED in Unicode.
>>
>>No greater hames have we ever made than encoding Mongolian without a
>>proper implementation model.
>
>Agreed. I can't imagine that anyone who has ever tried to actually do
>anything with Unicode Mongolian would recommend variation selectors as an
>encoding technique, unless perhaps they wanted to make sure the encoding
>was never implemented.
Could you please elaborate? Has this modle not been implemented? Either
via Unicode or otherwise?
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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