Tom Gewecke wrote at 2:26 PM on Sunday, January 18, 2004: >>>It took Devanagiri to show me the NATURE of the technical problem posed >>>by a dynamic encoding for cuneiform; it took Mongolian to show me that >>>the problem HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLVED in Unicode. >> >>No greater hames have we ever made than encoding Mongolian without a >>proper implementation model. > >Agreed. I can't imagine that anyone who has ever tried to actually do >anything with Unicode Mongolian would recommend variation selectors as an >encoding technique, unless perhaps they wanted to make sure the encoding >was never implemented.
Could you please elaborate? Has this modle not been implemented? Either via Unicode or otherwise? Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi

