cost per character

2000-08-03 Thread Hart, Edwin F.
I received the following note from the editor of the second edition of ISO/IEC 10646-1. Between Editions 1 and 2 we added about 15,000 characters. We were working on it for about 5 years, during which I spent maybe 20-25% of my time on editorial work and related national committee work. So

Re: Cost per character?

2000-07-31 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Christopher J. Fynn wrote: Leaving aside implementation costs - has anyone ever come up with a good estimate of the cost per character for the development of the Unicode / ISO 10646 standards in terms of man hours of experts and their long-suffering secretaries