Re: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-27 Thread Marion Gunn
Only national bodies with a vote on ISO/IEC 10646 can decide for or against Mr Quinn's formal proposal. I mentioned a scarf decorated with place-names I understood to be a gift symbolic of inter-country cooperation in CEN and ISO. Unicode is not a country. I wish that the large companies

Re: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Everson
Dear Ken, I have an answer to your question. On 27 Sep 2012, at 00:25, Whistler, Ken wrote: Is she perhaps referring to some non-public deliberations which may have taken place in the context of NSAI back in 1998? She is not, because no such deliberations took place in that context at that

Re: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-26 Thread Marion Gunn
Who knows, Jameson, but that some Unicoders may actually believe that delaying the encoding of Mayan means delaying the end of their world. :-) Scríobh 21/09/2012 20:35, Erkki I Kolehmainen: I fail to understand your strong attack on Unicode. Sincerely, Erkki One-line msgs such as the above

RE: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-26 Thread Whistler, Ken
Marion Gunn wrote: -Original Message- From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Marion Gunn Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:53 AM To: 'Unicode List' Subject: Re: VS: Mayan numerals ... This simple request to encode Mayan numerals has