Peter Lofting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Do you have references to the German as well as French script names...and any others ?
For French, I could translate them myself, but you'll find normative French names within ISO/IEC 10646 which names all its assigned blocks in the published French version. The assigned 4-letter codes for scripts however come from a RFC published in English only (the RFC makes a normative reference to the English names found in both ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode), but the source of information may finally be now ISO-10646 only as it is the entity that manages character repertoires and subsets. Unicode manages character properties and composition rules, but I do think that ISO-10646 is more trustable than Unicode to define script names and their associated repertoire subset, even if both entities share now an agreement for this convention, as the script associated with a character is also a character property in the domain of competence of Unicode. Who ever will make the proposal, and who will decide is another issue. But generally Unicode takes a longer time to include new characters in the common repertoire than ISO/IEC 10646 which involves many more national standardization bodies around the world than the Unicode Consortium and its working groups and liaison members. The time delay is needed by Unicode to correctly assign and discuss character properties (so an assignment in ISO/IEC 10646 or Unicode is not noramtive until both entities have balloted and voted in favor of the inclusion. As both entities involve different people (Unicode is open to any private organizations or people willing to join it, unlike ISO/IEC 10646 which approves its members, with some being involved by their governement as they could not pay the price of a full Unicode membership), it is a good point that both entities (public versus private, even if that division is not so strict) share their point of view about the extension of the repertoire. I would prefer to work within Unicode, but I can't pay its membership price in terms of time and participation. And I'm not entitled to join a ISO/IEC 10646 working group with its heavy administrative working methods. In both cases, I don't have the money and dedicated time to participate to their meeting around the world... __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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