UTC Agenda Item: IDNA proposal
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri Nov 24 15:37:56 CET 2006
At 15:09 +0100 2006-11-24, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>>Are the Greek letters looking simmilar to the Latin letters going to be
>>banned from the standard next? Sorry, but this reasoning is
>>ludicrous. What is the problem you are trying to solve?
>
>Engineering, also called "finding the point of equitably distributed pain".
Yes, well this is a linguistic exercise, and my depression at this
amateurism grows more and more. In fact it makes me angry.
>Greek lookalikes can be partially solved by a "don't change scripts
>in mid-label" rule.
Quite so, which is what I have argued for since I first heard of IDN.
>Since IPA is part of the Latin block, that's not a solution for it.
Yes but on the "permitted" list for Latin are a good many pretty
ludicrous things. I do not mean to be disrespectful. I know that you
are trying to do well. But you are not doing well. Please find the
resources to get real linguistic expertise involved.
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