At 08:44 -0800 2002-03-13, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: >From: "David Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sure. That's been done, and now almost everything not rarely-used or >> fictional has been encoded. > >Still stuff on the roadmap. :-)
Yep. If you count the number of scripts roadmapped to be encoded, you find that to date we have only encoded about 35% of the total number. >After that, perhaps Unicode can takle a step back and start working on >supporting its members and helping them implement what is there? The fact >that there is no member company that fully implements all of Unicode has go >to be sticking in more craws that just mine. My talk at the Unicode Conference in Dublin is all about this. :-) >So who precisely is the "value" to? Given the current economy, is it in the >best interests of the UTC to be spending a lot of committee time on either >one? Perhaps when times are better everyone can be more charitable.... As I have said before, though not very recently, the Universal Character Set will be used for centuries. The "value" is in the ability to encode the sum of human knowledge as made available in the world's writing systems. The UCS is not a commodity. It's a public good. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
