Attn: Mahesh T. Pai
C/o Magda Danish
Sr Administrative Director
Unicode Inc
<[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>,
This is just another curtsy reminder further to Sep 29 communique
see <
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/69634c1c07934aa/885b181818a1ae5e?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Unicode+Inc+worker+Mahesh#885b181818a1ae5e
>
As stated, Neither Assam Government nor Assam Literary Society has
asked Unicode Inc to encode Assamese stuff. Can you reply back with
detailed information on what prompt Unicode Inc to encode Assamese
stuff as "Bengali"?
Thank you in anticipation for your co-operation,
Tulasi
PS: My fear is that doing/encouraging additional work on Assamese-
scrip without restoring its historical perspective could lead to
something unpredictable.
From: Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Noticed improvement in the Code chart link
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
To: [email protected]
delex r said on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:42:46AM +0530,:
> It is seen that the linked pdf documents have some kind of
> copyright© 1991-2010 which I guess signifying a period of validity
> of such copyright. If so (I may be in need of some US legal
> information now), should it not be proper for Unicode to make
> revisions/corrections to these documentations (especially on this
> Assamese/Bengali issue) through its own investigative
> initiatives/efforts at this point of time before getting extensions
> of such rights (?) from authorities concerned? ….lest they should
> fall into some kind of copyfraud accusations in near future.
What has copyright to do with this?
And regardless of whay you say, both Bengali and Assamese are well
supported in most leading operating systems - Microsoft's Windows
(AFAIK), and most of recent GNU/Linux distributions. If any OS does
not support your language, you should get in touch with developers of
that OS.
Of course, if the developers say that something is wrong with the
Unicode standards, of course, you can bring up that issue here.
I am not speaking for the UTC. Or my employer (which is not the UTC,
BTW). I am speaking for myself.
--
Mahesh T. Pai ||
That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most
important of all the lessons that history has to teach us.
--Aldous Huxley
