Michael Everson wrote:
> What the encoding of a set of brDa rTen precomposed syllables would 
> do would be to restrict the Tibetans to this set, to which they have 
> been restricted by the proprietary Founder software used in China. 
> These 950 syllables are insufficient to express anything but 
> newspaper and bureaucratic Tibetan.

I totally agree. My point was another: if it is true that there is a large
existing corpus encoded in that encoding, a prerequisite to reject the
proposal is demonstrating that the path to Unicode is be smooth, with no
risk for the data and no unsustainable costs.

_ Marco

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