Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote on 04/23/2003 12:10:24 AM:

> I am surprised that the only link you have to me is my Unicode paper.

I have a few links that relate to work you have done:

http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn4/everson-iuc21pap.pdf
http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/

I do not have a general link to the Everson Typography Web site home page
because that page doesn't specifically describe writing
systems/scripts/orthographies, nor does it provide any clear links to such
pages, with the exception of the Alphabets of Europe, for which I have
provided a direct link.

Your site does have several links to pages for proposals for additions to
the UCS, but I have thus far chosen not to include links to such pages
since I have chosen to keep pages focused on computer implementation of
writing systems out of scope for this list.

I just took a look at your section on Celtic languages, and was about to
decide to add your "Every Ogham thing on the Web" page to my list, but it's
links are horribly out of date: I tried the first 16 links in the "General
Links" section, and almost all of them resulted in page-not-found errors;
of the ones that still existed, the information provided didn't seem all
that useful. (A Web site for an inn that happens to have documents in some
script at its physical location isn't in scope unless the Web site gives
some information about those documents and the script involved -- and then
I'd link to those pages, not the inn's home page.)

This only thing I found on that page that seemed useful as the link to a
page discussing Old Hungarian Runic.

I also took a look at your "Blissymbolics on the Web" page, and after
finding the first two links worked, with the second looking very useful, I
got as far as editing my page to include a link to it. But then I decided
to try some more of the links to see if there were any other really good
ones I should link directly, and I found the only other link in the General
Links section that worked was a second link to the Icelandic BCI site --
and none of the links to the Icelandic BCI's site actually gives really
useful information about the writing system. In the end, I've decided not
to list your page, but I will list the BCI-Canada site.

(This has taught me one thing: the page I've created is going to need
regular maintenance if it's going to be useful.)


Suggest some specific URLs that work and are useful, and I'll be glad to
include them.



- Peter


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