Steffen noted:
On 8/20/2018 3:22 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso via Unicode wrote:
It was just that i have read on one of the mailing-lists i am subscribed to a cite of a Unicode statement that i have never read of anything on the Unicode mailing-list. It is very awkward, but i_again_ cannot find what attracted my attention, even with the help of a search machine. I think "faith alone will reveal the true name of shuruq" (1997-07-18). --steffen
Fortunately, since I collect everything, this one has not been lost to the mists of
history yet. So here you go, another "tale from the archives", aka "every character has a story". --Ken =================================================================== From kenw Thu Sep 18 14:23 PDT 1997 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:20:29 -0700 From: kenw (Kenneth Whistler) Message-Id: <9709182120.aa16...@birdie.sybase.com> To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: War over 'shuruq' narrowly averted Cc: kenw Dateline: Geneva, Thursday, September 18, 1997 The ISOnominalists and the SInominalists met today at the bargaining table in their long-running dispute over whether the correct name of U+05BC should be: HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (shuruq) or HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ OR SHURUQ After considerable posturing and threats by both sides, opposing camps reluctantly agreed that a compromise solution was preferable to open flamewar. Unnamed sources state that the new name to be revealed in a press conference this evening is: HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (or shuruq) Both sides have also now agreed to focus their attention jointly at countering the antinomianist camp, which claims that no names can be imposed by human moral strictures, and that faith alone will reveal the true name of shuruq. =============================================================