L2/02-453

From: Deborah W. Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:43 PM
To: divyendu raska <tuduraska@rediffmail.com>
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