From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 13:34:49 EDT
On 29/04/2004 09:13, Rick McGowan wrote:
>Peter Kirk wrote
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>>If there is such a small minority, let us hear from them.
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>Well... I want to see Phoenician encoded, and I think Michael has made a
>fine proposal. Again, people who don't want to use the characters don't
>have to do so.
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But what answer do you have to my point, made in more detail elsewhere,
that it will cause total confusion, and defeat the purposes of Unicode,
if some people use the new characters and others don't? If such
confusion is to be avoided, we have to uphold the principle that if new
characters are added, everyone is expected to use them. Or do you say
that Russians, Greeks etc don't have to use the Unicode characters
defined for their scripts but are welcome to continue using legacy
hacked encodings? That would be a strange position for a Unicode officer
to hold - and this time you didn't even add that it was your personal
opinion! ;-)
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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