RE: Latin Script

From: Jonathan Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2010 - 04:24:39 CDT

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    I would like to add, with respect to a concern you had raised a number of times, that although the Unicode Consortium is a private organization, ISO is an official inter-governmental organization.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Erkki I Kolehmainen
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:14 AM
    > To: 'Tulasi'
    > Cc: 'Unicode Mailing List'
    > Subject: RE: Latin Script
    >
    > Tulasi,
    >
    > I cannot even imagine the level of misunderstandings you seem to have
    > on how the process works. New characters are proposed to either ISO/IEC
    > JTC1/SC2/WG2 or the Unicode Technical Committee or simultaneously to
    > both (like I have done). In all cases they will be included in ISO/IEC
    > 10646 and The Unicode Standard only after an agreement has been worked
    > out on the need to encode them and on their names by both committees.
    > Sometimes this is a very long process, and it would be wrong to state
    > that some characters are "discovered" by either organization.
    >
    > Incidentally, the character names in the various ISO/IEC 8859 parts
    > were aligned with those in the 10646/Unicode when those parts were last
    > updated some ten years ago.
    >
    > I can only agree with Mark on his suggestion. Also, you have already
    > been pointed out several times where to find the relevant information.
    >
    > Sincerely,
    >
    > Erkki I. Kolehmainen
    >
    > -----Alkuper?inen viesti-----
    > L?hett?j?: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-
    > bounce@unicode.org] Puolesta Tulasi
    > L?hetetty: 14. hein?kuuta 2010 1:25
    > Vastaanottaja: Mark Davis ?
    > Kopio: Unicode Mailing List; Doug Ewell; Edward Cherlin
    > Aihe: Re: Latin Script
    >
    > Link is working, thanks! I spent some times with no luck on link as
    > well as unicode.org, because I wanted to find:
    >
    > The list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode has discovered.
    >
    > Here, a letter/symbol with LATIN in its name in Unicode/ISO is a Latin
    > letter/symbol. And I call a "Latin letter/symbol" discovered by
    > Unicode if it created the name before ISO in the standard otherwise
    > discovered by ISO.
    >
    > Can you email the list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode
    > discovered?
    >
    > Can you also email list of letters/symbols that are not Latin but each
    > has LATIN in its name?
    >
    > > The merger between Unicode and ISO 10646 caused a few character names
    > in
    > > Unicode to be changed to match the 10646 names.
    >
    > Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well, including
    > names?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Tulasi
    >
    >
    > From: Mark Davis ? <mark@macchiato.com>
    > Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM
    > Subject: Re: Latin Script
    > To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
    > Cc: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>, Doug Ewell
    > <doug@ewellic.org>, Edward Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com>
    >
    >
    > See the following for the (many) differences between characters with
    > the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names.
    >
    > http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{script:latin}&b=\p{
    > name:/LATIN/}
    >
    > I'd suggest taking a more focused approach to learning about the
    > standard, rather than trying relatively scattershot questions to this
    > list. You might read through at least the first 3 chapters of the
    > Unicode Standard, plus the Scripts UAX. These are all online for free
    > at unicode.org.
    >
    > Mark
    >
    >
    >



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