At 09:57 +0000 2005-08-22, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> > > 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

I don't do this on behalf of the Unicode
consortium. I have made such a keyboard so that I
can type Vai text. I've been typing MS Vai 1 and
the Book of Ndole. It works, though there are
some intersting gaps that crop up from time to
time, with long vowels and nasal vowels for
instance.

>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

This still doesn't mean that Unicode has anything
to do with keyboard specifications.
--
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com