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
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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
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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 with
E, and with A and with Z and with L, then he will be
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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
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
On 10/07/2004 12:20, Michael Everson wrote:
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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
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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. And
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Correcting
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