RE: Arabic encoding model (alas, static!)

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 14:33:44 CDT

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    The Unicode Arabic is based on an ASMO standard, which I think was accepted
    by WG2 before the time of Unicode.

    I think this was discussed here some time ago.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of asadek@st-elias.com
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:28 PM
    > To: Erkki Kolehmainen
    > Cc: Bob Hallissy; unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Arabic encoding model (alas, static!)
    >
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Erkki Kolehmainen" <erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi>
    >
    > > The corresponding ISO committee is ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC2 and its WG2 is
    > > specifically dealing with the 10646. All WG2 meetings are minuted
    > > in great detail (thanks to Uma), and the outcomes of the ad hoc
    > > groups of experts that are being set up on the side as needed to
    > > resolve major issues are presented as WG documents to provide the
    > > basis for decisions by the full WG.
    >
    > Excellent.
    >
    > Could I then see the documented and minuted rationale for
    > using a static (non-productive) Arabic character encoding
    > model? What were the issues and risks the WG2 looked at
    > before making its decision not to encode combining arabic
    > three dots, two dots, etc.? Or did it just follow what the
    > UTC had decided for it? This UTC documented rationale is
    > apparently not to be found on the Unicode Web site (a series
    > of emails among the myriads of archived emails is not a UTC
    > decision, I would take).
    >
    > Again, I don't consider this a small decision, some minutiae
    > about whether to accept this rare and exotic character or not
    > which may not deserve a written explanation, but a
    > fundamental aspect regarding an important World script.
    >
    >
    > Ashraf Sadek
    > --
    > St Elias Coptic Community
    >
    >
    >
    >
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