From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 17:13:18 EST
At 13:55 -0800 2003-12-15, Peter Kirk wrote:
>On 15/12/2003 12:25, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>At 12:09 -0800 2003-12-15, Peter Kirk wrote:
>>
>>>Then let's hope that ISO 10646 doesn't decide to break its own
>>>rules and change "KOREAN" to "COREAN" in character names e.g.
>>>U+321D. Think what that would do to the Unicode stability policy -
>>>although in fact only five names are affected.
>>
>>It is offensive to suggest that WG2 would do so.
>
>Michael, I have never before heard of a committee or working group
>taking offence corporately. My remark was not ad hominem although it
>might have been considered ad comitatem (or whatever the correct
>Latin is). You may personally be very determined not to make such
>changes, but presumably there is a mechanism by which in principle
>you might be outvoted within WG2.
I object, rightly, to your suggestion that ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 would
violate its own rules and make changes which both the UTC and WG2
have promised not to do. Your statement made it sound as though WG2
was not a serious standardization body which does not take its
responsibilities seriously.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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