RE: A basic question on encoding Latin characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 05:07:16 EDT


Ar 17:35 -0700 1999-09-28, scríobh Reynolds, Gregg:
>I'll top that: I think there is substantial risk that Unicode will hasten
>rather than prevent the demise of endangered languages. [...]
>Technological instruments like Unicode, far from being
>ideologically neutral (as some messages on this list have strongly implied),
>are just as freighted politically as any other Big Project (dams, roads,
>etc), and must be viewed in a much broader context than the merely
>technical.

So, Gregg, you're suggesting, well, what?

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