A proposed solution for descriptions

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon Jun 19 18:05:58 CEST 2006


Addison Phillips scripsit:

> > Now, can we please kill this "ASCIIification" project as it
> > stands. If there was one place that I had hoped one would
> > not need to argue that was this particular forum.
> 
> +1
> 
> I don't support changing any letters in the registry. Personally:
> I think we're best off if we just replicate whatever the ISO MA sends
> to us. Even when different ISO MAs send us something different for the
> "same thing" (as with N'Ko). If "we" have a problem with it---tell
> *them* and let them work it out.

Well and good, but searching for "N'Ko" in the registry with either
grep or Google will find nothing at all.  I don't think that's
an acceptable state of affairs.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
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that there is no scientific explanation. The unexplained is not to be
identified with the unexplainable, and the strange and extraordinary
nature of a fact is not a justification for attributing it to powers
above nature.  --The Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "telepathy" (1913)


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