Re: [WMASTERS] UNICODE 2.0 - How Hard & Fast Is It?

[Leong Kok Yong <kokyong@irdu.nus.sg>]

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yes, that's possible considering that Unicode 1.1 has it's entire Korean
Hangul Jamo charset moved to a new larger code range in Unicode 2.0, thus
making Unicode 2.0 and Unicode 1.1 incompatatible at least for Korean
characters.

I'm not sure whether Unicode consortium will do it again for another
script. Adding characters should be fine but changing the code position
maybe difficult.



On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Bala Pillai wrote:

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> Dear Tamil lovers of all kinds,
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> This is Jochen Leidner's response to my message on how hard and fast
> UNICODE 2.0 is, what the expertise of the contributors of the Tamil
> language components to it were, and whether it can be amended to reflect a
> consensus of Tamilians that's about to be available now.
> 
> It appears to me that there was very little Tamil expertise that went into
> UNICODE 2.0. This is not a great state of affairs, but it is by no means
> fatal.
> 
> What this suggests to me is that we can submit the consensus we reach here
> to the UNICODE consortium *and* our submission will have very strong
> weight. A weak standard simply does not get implemented (remember software
> makers do not typically implement all of UNICODE, only parts of it that's
> in line with their commercial aspirations) or fails during implementation.
> 
> In short, let's take it as our target to come up with a consensus that will
> have more weight than any other extant Tamil computing standards in
> influencing the various standards bodies.
> 
> cheers../bala
> bala@tamil.net
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> **forwarded message**
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> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:51:25 +0200 (METDST)
> From: Jochen Leidner <leidner@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de>
> To: Bala Pillai <bala@tamil.net>
> Subject: Re: [WMASTERS] Re: Old Orthography, response to Kalyan
> 
> Dear Bala,
> 
> >How cast in stone is UNICODE 2.0 as it applies to Tamil script? Is it not
> >possible that our discussions would affect a revised version of UNICODE 2.X
> >? My limited knowledge of UNICODE Tamil deliberations suggest that it did
> >not get much (not anybody's fault mind you) airing.
> >
> 
> I'm afraid I do not know much about the Tamil script, and even less
> about the stability of Tamil wrt UNICODE 2.0; I can only say that
> everybody can suggest new characters to the committee, and acceptance
> is dependent on the criteria specified on the Unicode web server.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> Jochen
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