"Elaine Keown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now Jewish studies and Biblical studies people > are finally trying to convert to Unicode, fonts are > being made, proposals written, great experts are > looking over proposals.
> In 18 months or so, this will all be over, and we will > go on to a different type of standard (support for > Semitics in C/C++? a keyboard standard?...), a > different Bible project, maybe even a different > character set standard..... Elaine Eighteen months is a very short time as far as character encoding proposals go. Even once characters are officially encoded in the standard widespread implementation and support usually takes quite a while longer. Unicode is not a "quick fix" for anything - better I think to look at it as a long term solution. If people expect things to happen quickly and to be able to use a Unicode based system just as easily as the system they are using now in only a year or eighteen months time, then they are almost bound to be disappointed. Go ahead and propose any additional Hebrew characters needed. But its perhaps best to leave unification of scripts to a separate proposal. The first is likely to be non-controversial and pass quickly while there are obviously going to be arguments about the later and so a final decision on that may take a long time. - Chris
