From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 06:55:53 CDT
Dear Ngwe Tun,
I am just an (innocent?) bystander following this exchange of emails.
-On [20080709 12:10], Ngwe Tun (ngwestar@gmail.com) wrote:
>Welcome. you can spread wrong information more than we expected by the role of
>Unicode proposal. Seeing is beleiving. How Irish guy comptence our language
>fonts?
Michael has done a lot for many different languages, most of which, I
assume, he is not a native or fluent speaker of. But such knowledge is not
necessarily needed in order to produce working fonts for such languages.
>Still you are thinking Burmese, Mon, Shan and Karen like Latin. Just learn from
>Martin first. Shall we need storage order specification for our languages or
>not?
What do you mean by 'storage order specification'? Are you referring to the
way combining characters need to be stored or something?
>Never ever take advantages from Myanmar people
I think such statements are a bit over the top for the Unicode list. Even
though you might disagree with Michael, as we all disagree with one another
from time to time, I highly doubt he is taking advantage of anyone. From
what I understand he is even devoting time and effort into creating a
Myanmar/Burmese font for free.
In all fairness Ngwe Tun, I have many friends in Asian countries and I
understand their English fairly well, even with any mistakes they might
make, but I have had difficulty trying to fully understand the problems you
are trying to point out in your emails.
If there are problems with Unicode not fully supporting a specific written
form of Burmese or some other local language or dialect --and I fully admit
my knowledge is sadly lacking about Myanmar and its writing-- then most, if
not all, of us are very interested in hearing about it. So, could we please
focus on that?
Thank you for your consideration.
-- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Praying upon deaf ears...
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