John Cowan commented.
William Overington scripsit:
It seems to me that deprecating these language tags might be a bad thing
as
the language tags could well have potential use in plain text files on
the
DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcasting - Multimedia Home Platform) platform
in
order to
William Overington scripsit:
Oh, that is interesting. So what exactly is the public consultation about
deprecating the plane 14 language tags about? If the Unicode Technical
Committee decided to deprecate the plane 14 language tags, what would be the
effect of that decision?
Deprecated in
Doug Ewell wrote as follows.
[snip]
Right off the bat, though, I thank the UTC for initiating this public
review process which allows non-members like me to get their two cents
in regarding Unicode policies. (Hmm, two American-specific figures of
speech in one sentence -- perhaps it should have
William Overington WOverington at ngo dot globalnet dot co dot uk
wrote:
I do note however that review 3 refers to a document which is only
available to Unicode Consortium members, which seems a strange thing
if views of interested individuals are being sought.
I agree.
Also, it is a pity
At 05:29 10/29/2002, William Overington wrote:
Also, it is a pity that this new era of Unicode glasnost (displayed with a
ligature? :-) ) comes so shortly after the last Unicode Technical
Committee meeting the minutes of which state the consensus about no more
ligatures being added to the
On the http://www.unicode.org/ website is a link entitled
Public Issues for Review
which link leads to the http://www.unicode.org/review/ web page.
The first such issue upon which comments are invited is the following
proposal.
Deprecate the Plane 14 Language Tags
It seems to me that
William Overington scripsit:
It seems to me that deprecating these language tags might be a bad thing as
the language tags could well have potential use in plain text files on the
DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcasting - Multimedia Home Platform) platform in
order to signal to a Java program
I'm in the process of writing my own mini-essay, in which I will argue
strongly against the deprecation of Plane 14 language tags. Betcha that
doesn't come as a surprise to anyone. It's not quite ready yet, but it
definitely will be ready long before the November 5 deadline.
Right off the bat,
At 12:50 -0700 2002-10-26, Doug Ewell wrote:
Right off the bat, though, I thank the UTC for initiating this public
review process which allows non-members like me to get their two cents
in regarding Unicode policies. (Hmm, two American-specific figures of
speech in one sentence -- perhaps it
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