Dear Ken, Thank you for your comments!
> Then the annotations will change. The subheads in the name list do not "reserve" anything for > particular use. They change as appropriate, based on what future encoding decisions the > committees make. So, in this case there will be just two "Additional letters for Ossetian" subheads, right? Thank you, Alex. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ken Whistler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/17/2012 4:43 AM, satai wrote: > >> I would like to address two textual issues in this proposal. >> > > These are not actually textual issues in the *proposal*, but rather issues > regarding > the annotation of the code charts for these additions. > > > 1) U+10C8—U+10CC and U+2D28—U+2D2C are marked as reserved within >> "Additional letters for Ossetian" sets of the Khutsuri charts, but, >> obviously, they are in general reserve pool for both Georgian blocks. So, >> why are they specified as reserved in "Additional letters for Ossetian" >> sets? Will not it confuse/mislead a reader? And what will happen to >> "Additional letters for Ossetian" sets if one day something non-Ossetian >> will be proposed for, say, U+10C8? >> > > Then the annotations will change. The subheads in the name list do not > "reserve" anything for > particular use. They change as appropriate, based on what future encoding > decisions the > committees make. > > > 2) Since both Khutsuri YN and AEN letters are attested for Ossetian only, >> appropriate sets in the Khutsuri sections are named "Additional letters for >> Ossetian" (the corresponding sets in the Mkhedruli section are called >> "Additional letters for Mingrelian and Svan" and "Additional letters for >> Ossetian and Abkhaz"). However, Georgian YN is used not only for Ossetian, >> but for Mingrelian, Svan and Abkhaz as well. And nowadays Khutsuri is used >> by Georgian Orthodox Church, so there is a possibility for using YN in >> Mingrelian or Svan texts in future. Maybe it is better to name the >> additional sets in the Khutsuri charts in more neutral way? >> > > I would suggest that you make this comment as a contribution to the UTC > via the contact > form: > > http://www.unicode.org/**reporting.html<http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html> > > That will get the feedback into the hopper for review by the UTC, which > may decide to update > the annotations in the code charts accordingly in the future. > > --Ken > > > >
