From: UList@dfa-mail.com
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 03:46:20 CST
I believe Unicode's mandate is to go from:
POINT A:
Multilingual computing is a complete mess
to
POINT B:
Multilingual computing is a completely predictable,
standardized, coherent, unified system.
I do not believe Unicode's mandate is to go from:
POINT A:
Multilingual computing is a complete mess
to
POINT B:
Multilingual computing is a semi-standardized
semi-coherent, semi-unified system,
with large areas handed over to remain a
completely unpredictable, permanent mess
in outside, proprietary hands.
The decision to draw a line between characterhood and basic presentation forms
is a great organizational technique -- *within* the larger whole of Unicode's work.
The decision to farm out responsibility for a large part of handling basic
presentation shapes, by means of "language tags" -- with no standard language
tag technology in effect or on the horizon -- does not appear to be very wise
at the moment. I can only hope the situation improves -- and improves
including the needs of obscure script variants, co-equal to major ones.
The final decision, that Unicode isn't even to be *concerned* with what
happens to basic presentation forms, seems utterly irresponsible.
IMHO
Doug
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