Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

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Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 19:02:24 CST

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    Quoting "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>:

    >
    > On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Ben Monroe wrote:
    >
    >> Yes, my surname.
    >> I mentioned it around March 2002 on this list.
    >> You may find it in L2/07-161 (Index UTC00119) and the status is
    >> "Not to encode".
    >>
    >
    >
    > Ah, OK.
    >
    > First of all, this character wasn't "rejected" per se, and certainly
    > not by the IRG.
    >
    > The "not to encode" status is supposed to mean that either it's already
    > encoded or is a variant of an already encoded variant. (Not
    > necessarily a unifiable variant, BTW.) I have an action item to wrap
    > all of the variants into a registered variant set under UTS 37.
    >

    BTW UTS 37 - as far ad I am aware is designed only for unifiable
    variants, that is variants that would be unified according to Annex S.
    Therefore nonunifiable variants can not be included in the IVD
    sequences.

    > However, in this case I'm left scratching my head. This should not
    > have the "not to encode" status. I don't know how that happened, but
    > it was a mistake, and I've altered the status to reflect this.
    >
    > =====
    > John H. Jenkins
    > jenkins@apple.com

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