At 05:40 AM 12/16/02 -0800, Andrew C. West wrote:
1. DocumentationAs you noted, the promises made in order to get the encoding accepted into the standard have not all been kept...
Section 11.4 of the Unicode Standard notes that a group of experts from
Mongolia, China and the West are to publish a document called "User's Convention
for System Implementation of the International Standard on Mongolian Encoding"
which will explicitly define Mongolian character shaping behaviour in full. WG2
document N1980 (http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n1980.doc) also states
that Mongolian, Chinese and English versions of the "User's Convention" will be
prepared by Mongolia and China. I have been unable to locate this document on
the internet. Does it exist, and if so can it be made publicly available ?
Without the aid of such a document it seems almost impossible to correctly
implement the Unicode encoding of Mongolian.
A number of people are working off-line now to hammer out the missing details and to bring them in a form that can eventually be published as a part of the Unicode Standard.
Don't expect this to be completed until after Unicode 4.0.
A./
Asmus Freytag
Technical Vice President
The Unicode Consortium
