--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 20:53 +0000 2005-08-14, suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > > I wonder how much of your work is the work that turns out to

be the

> >> subject of intense complaint and criticism from those who try

to

> >>use it.
> >
> >I want to clear the air and say that *my* intense complaint about
> >Tamil had to do only with several associated factors in the

transition

> >from former encodings to Unicode. I would welcome any additional
> >comments from the list.
>
> I didn't encode Tamil. Tamil was encoded according to the ISCII

model

> for Tamil encoding, which was approved by the Government of India.

Michael, I didn't think you had but I wanted to make that clear to
Mr. Daniels. I have no criticism of your work except already
expressed concerns that Vai and Cree have different levels of
syllabary use by native speakers.

However, I do not in any way criticize the encodings but simply
wonder what can be done to accomodate these situations where
the 'standard orthography' is not necessarily that used by native
literates.

My concerns about glyph-based input are real but perhaps better
addressed elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Suzanne