I would like to add, with respect to a concern you had raised a number of times, that although the Unicode Consortium is a private organization, ISO is an official inter-governmental organization.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On > Behalf Of Erkki I Kolehmainen > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:14 AM > To: 'Tulasi' > Cc: 'Unicode Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Latin Script > > Tulasi, > > I cannot even imagine the level of misunderstandings you seem to have > on how the process works. New characters are proposed to either ISO/IEC > JTC1/SC2/WG2 or the Unicode Technical Committee or simultaneously to > both (like I have done). In all cases they will be included in ISO/IEC > 10646 and The Unicode Standard only after an agreement has been worked > out on the need to encode them and on their names by both committees. > Sometimes this is a very long process, and it would be wrong to state > that some characters are "discovered" by either organization. > > Incidentally, the character names in the various ISO/IEC 8859 parts > were aligned with those in the 10646/Unicode when those parts were last > updated some ten years ago. > > I can only agree with Mark on his suggestion. Also, you have already > been pointed out several times where to find the relevant information. > > Sincerely, > > Erkki I. Kolehmainen > > -----Alkuper?inen viesti----- > L?hett?j?: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode- > bou...@unicode.org] Puolesta Tulasi > L?hetetty: 14. hein?kuuta 2010 1:25 > Vastaanottaja: Mark Davis ? > Kopio: Unicode Mailing List; Doug Ewell; Edward Cherlin > Aihe: Re: Latin Script > > Link is working, thanks! I spent some times with no luck on link as > well as unicode.org, because I wanted to find: > > The list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode has discovered. > > Here, a letter/symbol with LATIN in its name in Unicode/ISO is a Latin > letter/symbol. And I call a "Latin letter/symbol" discovered by > Unicode if it created the name before ISO in the standard otherwise > discovered by ISO. > > Can you email the list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode > discovered? > > Can you also email list of letters/symbols that are not Latin but each > has LATIN in its name? > > > The merger between Unicode and ISO 10646 caused a few character names > in > > Unicode to be changed to match the 10646 names. > > Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well, including > names? > > Thanks, > Tulasi > > > From: Mark Davis ? <m...@macchiato.com> > Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM > Subject: Re: Latin Script > To: Tulasi <tulas...@gmail.com> > Cc: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>, Doug Ewell > <d...@ewellic.org>, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> > > > See the following for the (many) differences between characters with > the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names. > > http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{script:latin}&b=\p{ > name:/LATIN/} > > I'd suggest taking a more focused approach to learning about the > standard, rather than trying relatively scattershot questions to this > list. You might read through at least the first 3 chapters of the > Unicode Standard, plus the Scripts UAX. These are all online for free > at unicode.org. > > Mark > > >
