From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2008 - 12:56:45 CST
On 24 Dec 2008, at 18:06, Mark Davis wrote:
> As far as the proposal for: "Interpreting (and encoding) these 10
> symbols as common language/locale symbols, rather than as national
> flags", I personally don't know whether makes a difference one way
> or another. If anything, the number of possible languages and/or
> locales is much larger than the number of flags... My feeling is
> that we'd be best just encoding these 10 flag symbols, recognizing
> that it is purely for compatibility's sake, and be done with it.
This is going to get serious push-back from National Bodies.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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