> And nobody out there is volunteering to do it. I would do it gladly, but I do not have any skills at Indian languages. My opinion is that the list is important for the future of digital interactive broadcasting so I am trying to get the list done so that it is ready for use in displaying distance education texts in interactive broadcasting situations across the Indian subcontinent using my telesoftware invention.
I was told that I could commission it. I described what I thought was a good design brief for the list and asked how much it would cost. I am still waiting to find out. A lot of the information needed to prepare the numbered list is apparently in files, it is just that it is not available to people. If the Unicode Consortium really does not wish to include this important project within its scope, then it will need to be achieved in some other manner. I would have thought that whether the Unicode Consortium will take this project on or not should go to a formal board meeting of the Unicode Consortium so that there can be no doubt whatsoever of the provenance of any decision. William Overington 17 March 2003
