Re: ListServ, is there any way for me to deprecate conversations I am not privvy to from the start of them, having just joined yesterday?
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, William_J_G Overington < [email protected]> wrote: > Doug Ewell wrote as follows. > > > > It's the same as one of the concerns I have with encoding localizable > sentences as characters. > There aren't 20 or 50 or 100 sentences that people might want localized, > but crores of them. > > > Well, that seems like an example of a status point moving along a path > upon the surface of a cusp catastrophe manifold in a mathematical model of > decision making produced as an application of catastrophe theory. > > > One instant there is a desire by people for zero of them to be encoded, > then the next instant there is the desire by people for crores of them to > be encoded. > > > Please read the following post, where the quoted sentence is one > originally from Doug. > > > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m01/0103.html > > > Yes, implementing localizable sentences technology may well be modelled by > catastrophe theory. Whatever was said then and whatever is said now, there > may be a sudden change in what people want and localizable sentences > technology would become implemented quite quickly. > > > I cannot implement it on my own, and maybe if implementation takes place I > would play little or indeed no part in implementing it, yet maybe one day > it will become implemented. > > > I am hoping that it will be implemented in time for the 2020 Olympiad, > including the Cultural Olympiad. > > > William Overington > > > 28 March 2015 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > -- Michael A. Norton, B.A. Cinema, M.P.A. My Cinema Home: http://www.NortonsNook.com "All great actors are mere mathematical masters of speech and the human body."
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