Re: Biblical Hebrew (Was: Major Defect in Combining Classes ofTibetan Vowels)

2003-06-27 Thread Michael Everson
At 07:28 -0400 2003-06-27, John Cowan wrote: Michael Everson scripsit: Who is it who will kill the Unicode Consortium if UAX #15 were to be revised? Did it occur to anyone to *ask* about the possible revision of classes for the dozen or so instances that would be affected? The IETF, for one.

Re: [cowan: Re: Biblical Hebrew (Was: Major Defect in Combining Classes ofTibetan Vowels)]

2003-06-27 Thread Peter_Constable
Michael Everson wrote on 06/27/2003 09:39:16 AM: But you might trot on over with a white flag to parley about a problem. They [IETF] 're only human beings over there, just as we are over here. Every time I have referred to IETF as them in his presence, Misha Wolf has reminded me, WE are the

Re: [cowan: Re: Biblical Hebrew (Was: Major Defect in Combining Classes ofTibetan Vowels)]

2003-06-27 Thread Peter_Constable
John Cowan wrote on 06/27/2003 06:29:12 AM: Since the use of non-ASCII characters in things like XML and the DNS I suspect the users of Biblical Hebrew would rather be told they can't use Hebrew vowels and accents in markup or URIs than deal with a hack to fix errors in the combining classes.