E. Keown wrote:
Last year an SIL script expert told me that 50-60% of
the world's languages are *still* unwritten (that's
3600-4200 unwritten languages). SIL hopes to build
writing systems for everything by 2020
And the phonetics people say that the world's
languages contain 1200 different so
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Subject: Re: Changing UCA primary weights (bad idea)
> Mark Davis wrote:
> > So the question is whether Sybase tailorings, such as German, will be
> > affected
Mark Davis wrote:
So the question is whether Sybase tailorings, such as German, will be
affected positively or negatively, and to what degree. If a German customer
is accessing a database full of European names, and expects to find Ä with
E, and Ä with A and Å with Z and Å with L, then he will be r
Elaine Keown
Tucson
Hi,
Michael Everson wrote:
>6) the Latin alphabet has a lot more than 26 letters
>in it.
I agree with Michael! And Roman/Latin is a growing
scriptit's already the 2nd-most used script in the
world (after Hanzi).
Last year an SIL script expert told me th
âMark
* Made-up name; someone might give better example.
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Subject: Re: Changing UCA primary
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From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Changing UCA primary weights (bad idea)
> At 17:34 -0700 2004-07-09, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> >What I think we should be
On 10/07/2004 12:20, Michael Everson wrote:
...
I think most of what is in John [Cowan]'s list are letters which are
quite properly not interfiled with "base" letters. The African hook
letters (which I have mentioned many times, and which you have ignored
in favour of the Danish letters you are
At 17:34 -0700 2004-07-09, Mark Davis wrote:
What I think we should be examining is which of the items that are not
interfiled (to use your phrasing) should be, if any. I don't think
everything should be. In particular, I think John's list is the list we
should be focusing on.
I think most of what
a leading question -- even with
non-Americans, I doubt that you will find that people are as inconsistent in
their expectations as the UCA is.
âMark
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> Subject: Re: Changing UCA primarly weights (bad idea)
Correcting the subject, just because it bugs me...
> You are certainly right that this is not a slam-dunk; there are reasons for
> and against it. A
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