--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> How _you_ like to type Vai isn't relevant at all to
> how Vai people like
> to type Vai. It's no more natural for them to write
> Vai in the roman (or
> arabic) script than it is for you to write Irish in
> Ogam. You can
> (perhaps) if you need to, but you wouldn't want to
> have it as your only
> option.
>
> > >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.
>
> Nor did I claim it did. The person who made the
> suggestion was
> identified as "a Unicode principal."

So what is the referent of "they" in "But one of
Unicode's principals says they have to do
romanization." ?

Andrew Dunbar

> --
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...
>

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