Re: Unicode's Mandate

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Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 03:15:31 CST

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    Jon Hanna wrote:
    >
    > > I believe Unicode's mandate is to go from:
    > >
    > > POINT A:
    > > Multilingual computing is a complete mess
    > >
    > > to
    > >
    > > POINT B:
    > > Multilingual computing is a completely predictable,
    > > standardized, coherent, unified system.
    >
    > You're wrong.
    > You also have a bad idea of how to create flexible, robust standards that
    > can adapt to changes in need or the authors' understanding of the problems.

    I would love "flexibility" like an "eXtensible Glyph Format".

    I'm not fond of "flexibility", like some important functionality getting put
    in the hands of proprietary non-standard smart font behavior.

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