Of course this is regrettable. The efforts that were demanded was not about encoding, but about doumenting recommanded usages for best representing texts in various languages.
I hope that the European Union will instead refocus its project to cooperate in the CLDR projet, instead of abandoning it completely. I hope that some day the European Union will become an active member of the CLDR TC, because there is still LOT of work to do, and a large demand for it for an extended period (if not permanent). 2012/11/10 Erkki I Kolehmainen <[email protected]>: > FYI: After a very long process the European Commission has rejected the > standardization project for “Core Character repertoire” (that was also > presented at IUC 34) with the following rationale: > > “As the Unicode standard includes all the standard characters needed in all > official EU languages as well as almost all characters needed in most of the > world’s writing systems, it is difficult to see what benefits there would be > in implementing a specialisation of Unicode only for EU languages. > > “In addition, the problems described in the proposal are related to > non-implementation of this standard, and a new one would not change these > problems. > > It would appear from the above that the Commission is regrettably unaware of > the difference between encoding and character repertoire issues and the > extensive work needed to be done with confusables and other security aspects > of Unicode as well as of the need for guidance on the fallback mechanisms > required in several instances. Unfortunately, since the said > “specialisation” is ultimately required for the implementation of public > registers in each country for both their own use and also for the much > needed interoperability between EU member states, they’ll have to do it on > their own without the benefits of a joint standardization effort.
