Re: ISO 10646 compliance and EU law

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 13:39:26 CST

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    On 06/01/2005 19:04, Philippe Verdy wrote:

    > From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
    >
    >> It is surely possible for Unicode, within its stability policy, to
    >> add new precomposed characters with canonical decompositions if these
    >> are also defined as composition exceptions, alongside existing
    >> Hebrew, Arabic etc presentation forms which are composition
    >> exceptions. The UTC might be reluctant to do so, but if it comes
    >> under strong pressure to do this from the Chinese standards body
    >> through WG2, I see no compelling reason why the UTC should refuse
    >> this. There is nothing in the stability policy to force it to refuse
    >> new presentation forms of this kind.
    >
    >
    > The Unicode stability policy is one thing; but more importantly, it
    > does not
    > concern much ISO/IEC 10646, for which the interoperability with the
    > Chinese GB18030 standard can't be ignored. ...

    Of course. I am only saying that there are no strong grounds within
    Unicode for the UTC to reject such new characters.

    ...

    > However I think that this does not require changing the complete
    > interoperability between GB18030 and ISO/IEC 10646. ...

    I never suggested that it did. I hope it doesn't.

    > ...
    >
    > What this means is that the Unicode stability policy would have to be
    > amended to allow the interoperability required by the new Chinese
    > standard, but there would probably be no change in ISO/IEC 10646. ...

    Which is a very good reason for making it possible for the Chinese
    simply to add the extra characters they require to their existing
    standard, in a way which does not compromise the Unicode stability
    policy. Then they don't need a new standard which would complicate
    things for everyone. 

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