--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Constable" <petercon@...> wrote:

> > From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On

Behalf

> Of
> > Peter T. Daniels
>
>
> > But one of Unicode's principals says they have to do romanization.
>
> Wherever did you get that idea?

Probably from:

'I will develop a QWERTY-based keyboard layout, because that is what
they will have on their hardware, and as they are all familiar with
the Latin alphabet (English being the official language of Liberia).'

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/message/5334

and, as to Michael Everson being a Unicode principal, probably his
record of contributions, e.g.:

'I have helped to encode Balinese, Braille,
Buginese, Buhid, Cherokee, Coptic, Cuneiform,
Cypriot, Deseret, Ethiopic, Georgian, Glagolitic,
Gothic, Hanunóo, Khmer, Limbu, Linear B,
Mongolian, Myanmar, New Tai Lue, N'Ko, Ogham, Old
Italic, Old Persian, Osmanya, Phoenician, Runic,
Shavian, Sinhala, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le,
Thaana, Tibetan, Ugaritic, Unified Canadian
Aboriginal Syllabics, and Yi, as well as many
characters belonging to the Latin, Greek,
Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts.'

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/message/5400

Richard.