I have some good news to report:
The National Endowment for the Humanities has just approved funding for the
"Universal Scripts Project", which is a continuation of the "Script Encoding
Initiative" started two years ago at UC Berkeley. This funding provides a solid
beginning for work on Unicode script proposals, including Egyptian hieroglyphs
and several important minority and historic scripts.
This formal recognition and support of character encoding by the NEH marks the
first time that a U.S. governmental body has provided such funding. (UNESCO,
under the Initiative [EMAIL PROTECTED] program, has also been extremely
supportive of minority script encoding in the last year, and has provided
funding for the encoding of the N'ko and Balinese scripts.)
NEH funding for the Universal Scripts Project will run for two years from
January 2005 through the end of 2006, under my leadership. Terms of the NEH
grant require that substantial third-party donations be raised in addition, so
interested parties are encouraged to see the SEI web pages for further
information.
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/
With best wishes,
Deborah Anderson
Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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