On 15/12/2003 12:25, Michael Everson wrote:
At 12:09 -0800 2003-12-15, Peter Kirk wrote:
Then let's hope that ISO 10646 doesn't decide to break its own rules and change "KOREAN" to "COREAN" in character names e.g. U+321D. Think what that would do to the Unicode stability policy - although in fact only five names are affected.
It is offensive to suggest that WG2 would do so.
Michael, I have never before heard of a committee or working group taking offence corporately. My remark was not ad hominem although it might have been considered ad comitatem (or whatever the correct Latin is). You may personally be very determined not to make such changes, but presumably there is a mechanism by which in principle you might be outvoted within WG2.
I object, rightly, to your suggestion that ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 would violate its own rules and make changes which both the UTC and WG2 have promised not to do. Your statement made it sound as though WG2 was not a serious standardization body which does not take its responsibilities seriously.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
