On 6/9/2012 12:56 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
It is up to the UTC and to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 to request serious evidence of use
for things which seem of doubtful practicality, however.
And in so saying, I'd like to see a shopping list, hastily written. Notes taken
at speed in class. Personal signatures.
Practicality doesn't enter. If there's evidence of significant usage,
then that should suffice. I don't care whether there are shopping
lists.If someone publishes books in that script, for example, and can
point to significant sales - that's use. The reason for encoding is to
allow digitization of texts - and the reason for *standardization* of
this encoding is that text are shared by a significant user community
whether concurrently (as in living scripts) or asynchronously (as in
dead scripts). I would finally add the requirement that the user
community must be "open" - at least in principle - to warrant such
standardizatio.
If, to take a perhaps hypothetical case, only a small authorized group
were allowed to create documents in that script, then you could
legitimately question whether an *international standard* is the right
form of encoding.
Shopping lists or handwritten class notes still don't enter, unless they
lead to digital documents.
A./
