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?
My understanding is that stability promises have been made to W3C and IETF (any others?). I'm also leaning toward asking these organisations if an exception can be made to fix a broken normalisation for Hebrew, given that the present normalisation is not useful. If the UTC doesn't want to make the enquiry, perhaps a consortium of Biblical Hebraicist academic organisations, publishers and software developers could take the matter to W3C and IETF and try to obtain a statement that would allow Unicode to make the change? Perhaps WG2 would also support such a petition?
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores,
are labeled New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine,
who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint
Augustine and Stonehenge -- that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.
- Umberto Eco
