L2/01-059

From:  Michael Everson <everson@egt.ie> 
Date:  01/24/2001 03:18:15 AM


Summary of the Georgian documents:


1. They still don't get that they need 14651 not 10646 to get sorting.

2. They want three characters, two of which I have proposed before also,
and one which can apparently be decomposed. They don't want to decompose
it.

The characters are (names I would give them follow in parentheses):

GEORGIAN LETTER U-BRJGU (GEORGIAN LETTER WUN)
  => georgian letter un + combining circumflex accent

GEORGIAN LETTER AINI (GEORGIAN LETTER ELIFI)
  Older sources call it elifi (< Arabic alif) but maybe they call it aini
now.

GEORGIAN IRRATIONAL VOWEL (GEORGIAN LETTER YN or GEORGIAN LETTER SHVA)

3. They promise more information later on Nuskhuri. They make a mistake
comparing Fraktur and Roman in Latin with the situation in Georgian.

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Actions:

UTC should provisionally approve AINI and the IRRATIONAL VOWEL.
UTC should respond to the GSDIT regarding decomposition of U-BRJGU. If you
look at my Georgian documents you see that linguists use combining
characters DIAERESIS and ACUTE anyway.

It is my own intention to respond to the letter because I am interested in
pursuing the Nuskhuri tack. I will probably reiterate the situation
regarding ordering, and I'll discuss the character names issue.

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