From alb@riq.qc.ca Wed Apr 8 15:16:33 1998 Received: from riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA07549 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:16:31 +0200 Received: from laba01 (ppp132.gouv.qc.ca [192.197.162.132] (may be forged)) by riq.qc.ca (1.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29556; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:11:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980408091021.0072b52c@mail.riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@mail.riq.qc.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [F] Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:10:21 -0400 To: Trond Trosterud , i18n@dkuug.dk From: Alain LaBonté  Subject: Re: (i18n.431) FDC 14651 and 14562 data available In-Reply-To: <199804080937.LAA04640@dkuug.dk> References: <199804071003.MAA06014@dkuug.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A 11:36 98-04-08 +0200, Trond Trosterud a écrit : >I see you have sorted 3716 entities (I counted them, from the document >http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/i18nsort.txt) containing a ISO/IEC >10646 number (). In what way does that number equal "all characters >of ISO/IEC 10646 - UCS"? What criteria have been used for the selection? There is an ellipsis at the beginning specifying all characters (serach for "..", you'll find it). This is of course cheating, we know it and there is not intention to hide this fact. All characters have a fully predictable order. Thats's what Keld meant, I believe, but he has not explicited it. However the goal is to enrich the structured order of the template to fit within expectations of most scripts' users. We did not dispose of the expertise to describe all languages of the world at once and we have gathered what we had from participating countries (according to a decision of the group; this also makes senses as business will come from these countries at once). In the meanwhile everything is already tailorable to fit specific communities' requirements, wherever they are. That is a principle that makes possible such a standard. Some woldwidists, partisans of a grey world, do not like this idea of tailorability, but it is a very important principle, imho. Constructive comments (with tables) are expected (ballot ending on April 30) to enrich this table. I know that there will be enhancements for Indic sripts, among others, from Indic languages specialists who are member of the Unicode consortium. Alain Labonté Québec