Re: Zhuang tones three and four

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 18:11:26 CDT

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    2008/4/29 Benjamin M Scarborough <benjamin.scarborough@student.utdallas.edu>:
    > John H. Jenkins said:
    > > So are you looking to foster discussion on the subject? Or are you
    > > trying to get the UTC to make the addition?
    >
    > I'm trying to foster discussion to get an idea of whether the
    > disunification is appropriate. I'm pretty sure it is, but someone on
    > the Unicode mailing list may have some good reason it isn't.

    I don't know, how about
    --invalidation of all existing data that uses this old Zhuang orthography,
    --no obvious benefit to the user community (not that there is a big
    user community since the orthography has now been superseded),
    --no request for disunification from the representatives of the user
    community (i.e. China).

    At any rate, if you want to take this further you will need to read
    Annex F "Formal criteria for disunification" of the Principles and
    Procedures document

    <http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/wg2/docs/n3102.pdf>

    and assess the costs and benefits of disunification in this case.

    Andrew



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