From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The changes to the script are relevant to the linear Tamil issue > because the changes to the script include the notion that Tamil > is to be written linearly. The changes (modernizations) to some > of the glyphs are not relevant to the linear Tamil issue since > one will not make the other any easier or harder.
James, you are wrong. Linear Tamil has nothing at all to do with how Tamil is written. It is a scheme proposed due to a belief that the rendering system required by Unicode is too complex. The end desired result is text that looks identical to what is in Unicode now -- but the backend store or "logical" ordering will have to be changed. > A script's rules are defined by the users of the script. It is not > up to a committee to decide how someone else's language is written. > Unicode codifies existing script rules. If those rules are changed > by the users, Unicode's gotta roll with the punches. Um, tell that to people in Cambodia. But be sure to duck when you say it? > I'm lost. Yes. :-) > Unicode's public e-mail list is not an appropriate forum for > reforming Tamil (or any other) script. It is appropriate to > discuss how reforms in general or for a specific script will > impact the standard. It should be appropriate for anyone > contemplating script reform to ask questions here about > the standard in order to help minimize that impact. He is not asking questions and he does understand the issues -- he is just looking to see Unicode changed in anticipation of a script reform that no one else has announced or attempted because of an opinion that this "Linear Unicode" will make the reform easier. > My impression is that this is what Sinnathurai Srivas has tried > to do. I think you may need to spend a bit more time [offlist] so you can have a full understanding of intentions and desires here. After dealing with this particular issue for years in forums where it is off-topic with someone who is insistent that these changes would be needed to support machines that cannot handle the current encoding, I really do not want to head on to a new multi-year discussion here on the Unicode list, where it is if anything even more off-topic. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
