Re: Unicode Core

From: <vanisaac_at_boil.afraid.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:49:44 -0700

From: Ken Whistler <kenw_at_sybase.com>
> To echo what Michael said here, the editors are looking into this.
>
> We did, in fact, do the work to volumize the entire set of charts, including
> all of CJK, for POD, and even made volume covers and title pages.
> However, it turned out that Lulu had production issues for at least some
> of those volumes. So at the last minute we had to limit the POD to
> just the core specification, which didn't cause printing problems.
>
> It was an interesting experiment, and we learned some lessons from it.
> But we simply do not have the bandwidth to finish wrestling with it for
> Unicode 6.1 right now. (The Unicode 6.2 beta is underway, and the people
> involved with charts need to focus on getting Unicode 6.2 charts prepared.)
>
> I anticipate that once Unicode 6.2 is done, the editors may take another
> crack at this, and manage to create volumes for charts with settings that
> won't make Lulu production printers crash and burn. But all in good time.
>
> --Ken

Wait a minute. Isn't 6.2 just adding the Turkish Lira? Does that really take
the chart people more than about 10 minutes?

-Van

PS, interesting that you had production issues on doing the code charts as
print-on-demand. I guess that's not quite as straightforward a process as you
would think.
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