On 01/03/2004 14:24, Philippe Verdy wrote:
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aha, here's my way to get the characters I want into Unicode although
they have been rejected! I find some near-bankrupt island state and
persuade (with a little financial lubrication) its government to set up
an official standards committee with me as the chair. I then issue an
official national standard including the characters I want to get into
Unicode.
Possible way to get it... Provided that this country has a chair for its
national standardization body in some international standard body. That country,
once it promotes its national standard would have to explain to other countries
why it needs it and why others should accept to manage with it.
Your rarely used characters you seem to want are probably not a high priority
for this government, to costly discuss these issues in international standard
bodies (think about the cost of air trips, hotels, personnels...)
Don't take me so seriously, when I write :-)
...
Yes they can start using Unicode each time it's possible. But lack of money for
newer developments will still require them to use the tools they have today,
including lots of legacy software made for 8-bit character processing systems.
It's really a question of cost, and an important and justified economic
decision, notably for a country which does not have the same financial power as
US which can benefit of the largest collection of software and hardware
solutions in the world.
The cost of software is unlikely to be a serious issue. I haven't been
to Tajikistan, but in many countries in that region almost any software
is available for the cost of copying a CD. As a result Windows XP and
Office XP (probably now 2003) are in general use.
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Peter Kirk
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