Re: Devanagari question

[John Jenkins]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at 03:14 PM, Chris Pratley wrote:

> Many Chinese speakers I have met claim that they do not
> see the set of Chinese characters as bounded, even if one were to go 
> through
> all ancient texts. 

That's Jenkins' First Law of Encoding Ideographs:  You have never encoded all of them.

> It is the job of the UTC to make a call on newly 
> proposed
> characters - hopefully their number will be few.
> 

Slight correction:  It's the IRG's job. UTC doesn't do ideographs.