From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 15:20:30 EDT
A propos of the separate thread on the directionality of
Arabic digits...
> At some point it can indeed become unrealistic, snobbish, self-serving,
> and even lazy to just casually toss out the "do-it-yourself" crumb.
Thank you, Dean, for casting Persians in your Western. ;-)
> Currently, I view the PUA as practically a wasteland, unusable for even
> for the most basic research work.
A wise decision, all in all.
> Is it simply out of the question, to review PUA policies and
> implementation in Unicode? Could not the PUA, or possibly multiple PUA's,
> retain their almost wild west independence and entrepreneurial spirit,
> and still have a few sheriffs hanging around here and there to impose
> some minimal expectation of law and order?
But who would you cast in the role of sheriff? James Garner is
getting a little old for that kind of thing, and I didn't see
anyone with the right acting resume among the Persians.
--Ken
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