From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 13:31:49 CDT
On 5/24/2006 7:43 PM, J Andrew Lipscomb wrote:
> There's a difference. Unicode itself has stability policies (the
> wisdom of which I state no opinion on, but that ship has sailed). The
> CLDR, a more recent import into the Unicode Consortium's operations,
> is another matter, and does not have stability policies.
>
>
>
The difference is that the Unicode Standard is about the representation
of textual data. Once encoded, the interpretation of such data must
remain stable - otherwise we will be cut off from our history.
CLDR is about cataloging conventions. Conventions are living constructs
and subject to change. If it is deemed useful at some point to
explicitly preserve 'historical' conventions, a mechanism could be
invented in CLDR to preserve previous, but now outdated conventions. In
such a case, I would not be surprised to see guarantees preventing the
change of such 'frozen' conventions.
However, that's not the current model for the CLDR.
A./
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