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- From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.misc
- Subject: Re: ISO 10646 the final character set?
- Message-ID: <23302J@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:57:26 GMT
- References: <BstGEq.7E7@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <q++ygqb@rpi.edu> <1992Aug11.221914.7798@csc.ti.com> <23302B@erik.naggum.no> <jenkinsj-120892082033@tseng.taligent.com>
- Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- I wrote:
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- || Voting terminated on 1992-04-10...
-
- John H. Jenkins <jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com> wrote:
- |
- | The vote actually ended at the end of May. Some countries got their
- | votes in late and were not counted.
-
- Yes, that's right. I confused the votes on ISO 10744 and ISO 10646.
- 1992-05-30 was the vote termination date for ISO DIS 10646.
-
- | I believe that the comments from Poland and Tunisia were not
- | accomodated for reasons similar to Turkey's (who wanted Latin 9 used
- | instead of Latin 1 in the first 256 code points; nobody else would
- | agree to that). The UK and Denmark were accomodated and appear to
- | be satisfied with the accomodations.
-
- Part of the reason Denmark voted NO was to allay the Turkish claims,
- too. This was a formally supported move, but several countries just
- voted YES to indicate their displeasure.
-
- | Turkey, BTW, used its diplomatic corps to exert pressure on other
- | countries to go along with them. I think this backfired and lost
- | them sympathy rather than winning them any.
-
- Certainly! Norway got into voting at the behest of Iceland, who were
- worried about ISO 8859-1 being replaced, and their ETH and THORN going
- the way of the dodo. Turkey had completely neglected to allow for the
- characters they suggested to be replaced, which also made people angry
- at them. I saw both letters, and found Turkey totally mindless.
- Iceland's concern was understandable, but they did at least not use
- their diplomatic corps to counter-act Turkey.
-
- | BTW, I'm told that 10646 set a record for the number of countries
- | participating in the vote.
-
- Maybe we can "thank" Turkey for that... :-)
-
- Best regards,
- </Erik>
- --
- Erik Naggum | ISO 8879 SGML | +47 295 0313
- | ISO 10744 HyTime |
- <erik@naggum.no> | ISO 10646 UCS | Memento, terrigena.
- <enag@ifi.uio.no> | ISO 9899 C | Memento, vita brevis.
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