JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2562 L2/02-453 From: Deborah W. Anderson Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:43 PM To: divyendu raska Cc: immortalpm@yahoo.co.in Subject: RE: Santali Language Dear Mr. Divyendu Raska, Thank you very much for your email dated Saturday November 30 and the two packets sent to me regarding the Santali language, which I read with interest. Your email document has been forwarded to the Unicode Technical Committee for their consideration. As a representative for the Script Encoding Initiative at UC Berkeley, I acknowledge your note of protest regarding Ol Chiki. The effort to encode the scripts of the world is an open process, and proposals are available for comment by anyone, hence your letter has been duly noted. I would like to say, however, that encoding scripts by Unicode or the Script Encoding Initiative does not bring with it any requirement as to its use (or non-use) by anyone; as long as a script is used by people--ancient or modern--anywhere in the world, the script is eligible for encoding. Thank you for providing the nice exposition of Latin alphabet usage for Santali. (Because Unicode does not enter into the realm of any kind of orthographic standardization, however, it does not publish or endorse any "Roman Script Santali" mappings.) Sincerely, Deborah Anderson Script Encoding Initiative Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics UC Berkeley