At 12:38 -0600 2002-03-13, David Starner wrote: >I've have a question, as much for Michael Everson as anyone else. How do >you rescue a script that has a proposal but hasn't had any action in 5 >years? One of my friends was asking about Hungarian Runic, and all I >could suggest was getting the Hungarian standards body to take up the >cause.
You provide the resources for to the experts and standardizers to do the work to get it done sooner rather than later. Otherwise it's a spare-time thing, and spare time was a lot more available prior to the present economic slump. I think it's very interesting that there is suddenly a tremendous upsurge in interest in a number of scripts. With regard to Hungarian Runic, we were at a bit of an impasse with some experts in Hungary about ligated forms, just about the time the use of ZWJ was beginning to be considered for that purpose. Since that time, three institutions in Norway and Finland helped fund a small project team to sort out characters needed to complete support for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (see http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2419.pdf.) It may be the case that Finno-Ugric institutions may also take an interest in hastening the encoding of Hungarian Runic and Old Permic. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
