Doug Ewell wrote as follows. [snip]
>Right off the bat, though, I thank the UTC for initiating this "public >review" process which allows non-members like me to get their two cents >in regarding Unicode policies. (Hmm, two American-specific figures of >speech in one sentence -- perhaps it should have been tagged en-US.) Yes, I too am grateful for this "public review" process. I do note however that review 3 refers to a document which is only available to Unicode Consortium members, which seems a strange thing if views of interested individuals are being sought. Also, it is a pity that this new era of Unicode glasnost (displayed with a ligature? :-) ) comes so shortly after the last Unicode Technical Committee meeting the minutes of which state the consensus about no more ligatures being added to the U+FBxx block. Surely the matter of ligatures would be a good topic upon which to conduct such a public review. So, I wonder if at the meeting due to be held from 5 November 2002, perhaps it might please be considered as to whether "consultation 5 - precomposed ligatures" could be made a topic of a public review in this manner ready to be considered at the Unicode Technical Committee meeting after that meeting, so that there is the time and opportunity for widespread consideration to take place. William Overington 29 October 2002
