From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 21:05:29 EST
Elaine asked:
> > <http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2676.pdf> is
> > a complete listing of new symbols to go into Unicode
>
> Thanks!--how many Web sites do you all have?
is the official website of -- you guessed it --
JTC1/SC2, the JTC1 subcommittee which maintains ISO/IEC
10646. From there you can get to all the official WG2
documents posted for review, as part of the review and
development of 10646 (which, of course, has a direct
bearing on the synchronized development of the Unicode
Standard).
> and why
> aren't they linked together for us fringies?
They are. While the dkuug.dk site is rather stingy in
providing links to the Unicode Consortium, you can find
them in many of the documents there. However, the
Unicode website page:
http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/resources.html
has links to www.dkuug.dk and directly to the JTC1/SC2
directory there, as well as links to many other relevant
standards sites.
Then there is Mr. Michael Everlinker himself. At his
site:
you can find links *both* ways, to all the SC2/WG2 documents
and to the Unicode website.
People who are heavily engaged in this character encoding
business have to spend a great deal of time on all three
of those sites.
> > Ken Whistler and Michael Everson plan
> > to get together after too much eggnog and randomly
> > rearrange the numbers.
>
> Eggnog sounds good--Guiness is that scary dark
> stuff--distilled from peat bog water with charcoal for
> flavor, right?--Elaine
"Distilled" ?! Horrors.
No, it is made from the River Liffey, with beer yeast
and sugar, then substituting well-charred bog turves
for the malt. The nice dark color comes from the bog turves,
with a good long mash, and the head comes from the river scum.
--Ken
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