Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Maybe this should be a Unicode Myth for Mark Davis's collection,
>> something along the lines of "Encoding (or considering) script A
means
>> script B has to wait longer before being encoded (or considered)."
>
> This is not a myth, but a fact - if understood in general terms as
> a statement about a process that has limited bandwidth.
I hope this is meant in a very general and flexible way. We have been
telling Kogai-san and many others that the effort (such as it is) to get
Tengwar and Cirth encoded is orthogonal to the effort to get additional
CJK characters encoded.
Asmus is, of course, right that it is possible to do only so much at one
time with limited resources. But based on what I have heard, getting
source material and usable information for the remaining scripts can be
more time-consuming than the actual process of encoding them. And CJK
issues are determined by the IRG, which has nothing to do with Tengwar,
so there is some parallelism in the process.
The myth I was trying to communicate was that the process is totally
serial, such that if 3 weeks are spent on getting Tai Le encoded, CJK
Extension X is pushed back by 3 weeks.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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