On 19/08/2003 14:42, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
A session on internet & African languages that was part of the WSIS prepcom
in Bamako last year was critical of Unicode as it is. An individual on the
newsgroup fr.comp.normes.unicode denounced Unicode as an American scheme.
The problem is, like much else, Unicode has gotten caught up in
the much larger political, social, and economic currents regarding
globalization. There are plenty of people who come into the discussion
with preconceived notions (many of which are at least partially
accurate) regarding the intent of American driven information
technology, and more generally, global corporations, to control the
world.
Might it help to point people to the list of members at
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html? By no means all US or
international corporations, especially among the associates.
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Peter Kirk
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