From: Erkki I. Kolehmainen (eik@iki.fi)
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 07:52:31 CST
Dear All,
There are presently three quite different proposals for the encoding of Old
Hungarian (with various names):
N3566 by Gbor Bakonyi (revision of N3526), N3531 by Michael Everson and
Andr Szabolcs Szelp, and N3527 by Gbor Hosszz.
It was agreed in the Hong Kong meeting that there would have to be
cooperation between the proposers before WG2 could seriously consider the
encoding of the script. Far too little has happened to meet this
requirement.
Outside WG2, we did organize an ad hoc on Old Hungarian at the CEN TC304
meeting in Vienna on November 5, 2008. The participants were Michael Everson
(Ireland), Christian Galinski (Austria), Gbor Hossz (Hungary), Adam Jo
(Hungary), Erkki I. Kolehmainen (Finland), Marc Wilhelm Kster (chair), Karl
Pentzlin (Germany), and Roman Grahle (secretary).
The relevant resolution (9/2008) was: Subject: Encoding of the Rovas script
- "TC304 encourages the different parties to attempt to find consensus on
the character repertoire prior to discussing details of character encoding
for the Rovas script (unanimous)".
Unfortunately, this has not led to any real results. Michael Everson had
prepared the document N3532 "Mapping between Old Hungarian proposals in
N3531, N3527, and N3526", but it seems to have been essentially ignored by
the other parties.
Although I won't participate in the next (Dublin) meeting, I find the
situation close to intolerable to the participants from the various National
Bodies. I'd like to propose that an ad hoc be set up early in the meeting
with the clear objective to agree on either one proposal for processing at
the meeting or at least the way forward to come up with a processable
proposal for the following meeting.
Sincerely, Erkki
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Tilkankatu 12 A 3, FI-00300 Helsinki, Finland
Puh. (09) 4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Tel. +358 9 4368 2643, +358 400 825 943
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