Well, we could probably not charge that to Unicode or ISO, though. Maybe you
could add travel costs and other expenses for attendees of conferences? <g>
michka
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Subject: RE: Cost per character?
> 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
>
> A scaring figure it must be! And imagine what the amount would grow up to
if
> you add the cost of developing writing system during the last eight
> millennia (man/hours employed, cost of clay tablets or papyrus, etc.).
>
> _ Marco
>
