RE: No Subject

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 16:07:20 CDT

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Dean Snyder
    > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:15 PM
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    > Subject: Re: No Subject
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    > Sinnathurai Srivas wrote at 6:58 PM on Thursday, July 7, 2005:
    >
    > >Dean Synder wrote,
    > >
    > >> It could, however, change rather quickly if several
    > >> international stake-holders simply paid for full membership in the
    > >> Unicode Consortium and also became involved in the ISO
    > 10646 efforts
    > >> through their national standards bodies. Basically this would take
    > >> money, expertise, and time. Given those ingredients,
    > however, you could
    > >> effect real change.
    > >>
    > >
    > >What about a language that has no Government to tame the ISO?
    >
    > A national ISO body could support an encoding proposal, whether or not
    > it involves a script used within their borders. In fact this
    > happens all
    > the time.

    And sometimes ISO decides against the position of the country that is the
    main user of the script.

    Jony

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