For more than a year I have been so busy rebuilding my own company and juggling community responsibilities and invalid care, that I have had little time to keep up with Unicode/10646 club activities.
I also have US spam of the nastiest kind running at over 80% of my e-mails, so I tend to avoid communicating by e-mail now, as much as I can, so I'll keep this msg brief, and hope it is acceptable. Please let me try again to ask about progress made, in that year, in re Unicode/10646, whose activities, I repeat, EGT supported financially for many years (I also repeat that I still support Unicode in principle, and can do so now with a much lighter heart, with that financial burden at last removed). This year's Unicode conference seemed so marred by avoidable blundering (some disagree with me on that) that I felt moved to offer certain comments, which still stand, as posted, and, although only referring to Ireland, I hope they may influence planning around other conferences in other host countries. I am genuinely curious to know if Unicode still has an unusual company structure of only one indian and many chiefs (a US expression, no insult), or whether it now, like most IT companies, employs plenty of indians and only a few chiefs (directors). I know ISO/IEC 10646 can not be made any exception to ISO rules which demand a review every 5 years, and I would like to know what stage it is at now, or what the main elements driving/preventing WG 2 progess on that may be. I also still want to know about implementaions (Unicode may not consider its brief to cover implemenations, the companies which combine to make the consortium sure do, and it would be nice of them to say how many such implementations are now MES/BMP-compliant, or whatever - please cut through the terminology to the meaning). A scan of my mailbox shows 8 responses to my mail of yesterday. I have yet to read those responses, so, if the answers to the above questions have already been posted, you can disregard my posting them in this msg. Sarasvati has written to me privately, concerning job advertising on the list. I shall not do that again. I hope this helps. mg Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire