Ar 17:04 -0400 2003/06/04, scr�obh Tex Texin: >Marion, It is very easy to start your own list...
Have done, may do so again, as needs be. > >You can create lists for 3166... Thanks, but no, thanks, Tex, although I do think such a service would be good, to provide the same open discussion forum/bug reporting/testing ground for ISO 3166 as [EMAIL PROTECTED] provides prior to IANA submissions, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Unicode/10646 (the latter purpose having been served by two separate lists until recent times). I'm more concerned with maintaining lists serving indigenous communities in their own languages, and with contributing/requesting expertise elswhere. (Some Irish lists, as you may know, were recently mercilessly dive-bombed with msgs in English, trying to disrupt debates in Irish about a lang-tag problem which also surfaced on the IANA and Unicode lists.) > >Other Unicode folks have created specialized lists for their own purposes. Thanks for that 'other' - meaning you, Tex, consider I count as one?:-) Oftentimes, I feel the Unicode list, or some of its members, to be approachable/ helpful/appreciative in areas to do with character sets/groupings and cultural codetags, and how the bits and pieces get cobbled together, for good or ill, to make up locales. At other times, I feel like I just stumbled into a YMCA when its inmates are restive/want a common enemy (that's when I bring to mind the 3 children - or, yea, a Daniel! - and go do it anyway). mg >tex -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
