- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:22:24 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
At 20:12 14/01/2009, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: >Actually Unicode isn't about languages so much as charcters within >written standards for the languages. A language is "Unicode ready" >if Unicode has all the characters used in its writing system. (...) 'A language is "Unicode ready" if' sounds like putting the cart before the horse. Big Brother Unicode doesn't rule the world, it is only meant to serve that part of the world that uses computers. It would be more accurate to say that Unicode is ready for a language when it contains all the characters in that language's writing system(s). Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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