From mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Mon Feb 28 10:28:41 1994 Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA04917 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:29:33 +0100 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <17569-0@oxmail.ox.ac.uk>; Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:28:52 +0000 Received: by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V3.3 VAX) id 10545; Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:28:43 +0000 Sender: mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:28:41 +0000 From: Miles Ellis To: ALB@immedia.ca Cc: I18N@dkuug.dk, ISO10646@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU, RTFQ-FORUM@CRIM.CA, SC22WG20@dkuug.dk, TC304@dkuug.dk, BEALLE@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com, CPWG-MAIL@revcan.rct.ca, UMAVS@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com, mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: <0097ABAD.0D0D1E5E.10545@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: RE: (SC22WG20.866) Multiscript Ordering -- Survey on a fundamental issue X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Alain, You asked the following question: > 1) Is it acceptable, in an eventual international standard on multiscript > ordering, to constrain applications to separate different scripts > (ex.: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Han, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, and so on) into > different fields to be compared, so that only one script set would be > processed at a time? By coincidence, we had a meeting of the UK i18n panel last week and, during the discussion of the WG20 program of work, this very issue was raised. Our feeling, I believe, was that although we could not see any major requirement for the ordering of several scripts at once we would expect any ordering standard to permit such a procedure. So the answer to your first question, from a UK perspective, is NO. Sorry if this makes things harder, but then no-one ever said writing standards was easy! Miles ***************************************************************************** * * * From: Miles Ellis * * Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre * * University of Oxford * * 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF * * * * Telephone: +44 865 270528 Fax: +44 865 270527 * * Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk * * * * * * "Don't let the b*****s get you down!" (Michael Mates, MP) * * * *****************************************************************************