I have just noticed that the Chinese government have presented a proposal to encode 956 "BrdaRten" characters in the BMP. See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2558.pdf
These are precomposed glyphs for the most commonly encountered vertical stacks of consonants and vowels. They are all already representable using the existing Unicode Tibetan character encoding model (I am not a great fan of this model, but for all its sins, it's what we've got and we should learn to live with it). Would I be correct in believing that there is no chance of these precomposed forms being accepted, even when pushed by a country with the clout of China ? Andrew
