- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:33:04 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
At 14:47 15/01/2009, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: >Please note that the quotes in "Unicode ready" meant to convey "for >lack of a better term". Since the lexeme "ready" in "Unicode ready" is not a stative verb, the resulting meaning was the opposite of the intended meaning. >I could call Unicode "Tlagi ready", but I sincerly believe that >would have confused the issue (because you would have 5,000+ >versions of this term, one for each language). > >Hope this clarifies my position (but probably not). Yeah, sure, call me dumb. Best regards, Christophe >Elizabeth > >>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 > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. >Instructional Designer >Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS >Penn State University >ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) > >210 Rider Building (formerly Rider II) >227 W. Beaver Avenue >State College, PA 16801-4819 >http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu >http://tlt.psu.edu -- 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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