Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread and

2001-02-26 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/25/2001 05:16:15 AM "William Overington" wrote: [snip] Yet suppose that some organization were to have "Encode Your Character Here For Free" with light moderation only and openly stated that the way that the organization planned to make a profit were to encode all of the characters

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-26 Thread Michael Everson
At 07:21 -0800 2001-02-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like it or not, Unicode is the property of the Unicode Consortium and its members, not ordinary people. The character set is also the property of the International Organization for Standardization. Personally, I think the PUA is a wonderful

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-26 Thread Thomas Chan
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/25/2001 08:01:38 PM "Joel Rees" wrote: I know this has been hashed over time and time again, and the answer has been handed down as if by edict time and again, but _your_ attitude as expressed below is taken by many who are not involved as

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-26 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/25/2001 08:01:38 PM "Joel Rees" wrote: Michael, I know this has been hashed over time and time again, and the answer has been handed down as if by edict time and again, but _your_ attitude as expressed below is taken by many who are not involved as rather arrogant. Michael and I don't

Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread and fictional etc thread)

2001-02-25 Thread William Overington
In the thread "fictional scripts revisted" Kenneth Whistler wrote as follows. quote In other words, unless someone manages to wrest the standard away from the two committees and puts up a public website with an "Encode Your Character Here For Free and Enter Our Sweepstakes!" interface, I'm not

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, William Overington wrote: [reams on the notion that the forces of glyph encoding may overwhelm the defenders of Unicode.] Well yes, people are free to tunnel anything they like in the PUA and assuming their Unicode applications are willing to allow much larger datafields

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Thomas Chan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, William Overington wrote: I find the Private Use Areas of great interest and a valuable resource. However, use of the private use characters requires agreement between users if private use characters are to be used for exchanging information between people. Already

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:15 -0800 2001-02-25, Thomas Chan wrote: On the other hand, apparently neither CSUR nor you were aware of (or chose to ignore) the clashes with the mappings between the PUA and legacy CJK encodings and character sets, which [the mappings] have already been implemented for 5+ years now on

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Thomas Chan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Michael Everson wrote: At 10:15 -0800 2001-02-25, Thomas Chan wrote: On the other hand, apparently neither CSUR nor you were aware of (or chose to ignore) the clashes with the mappings between the PUA and legacy CJK encodings and character sets, which [the mappings] have

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread and fictional etc thread)

2001-02-25 Thread James Kass
William Overington asked... I also remember reading some time ago about a project called Junicode that produced a font using some characters in the private use area. Are these private character uses different from the uses in the ConScript registry and likely either to cause clashes or

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
4:15 AM Subject: Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread At 10:15 -0800 2001-02-25, Thomas Chan wrote: On the other hand, apparently neither CSUR nor you were aware of (or chose to ignore) the clashes with the mappings between the PUA and legacy CJK encodings and c