Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:

>> For my part, I am proud of the work we have done
>> to encode Vai, and I am content that my efforts
>> to make software available that will enable
>> computer-using Vais to enter Vai text will, in
>> fact, benefit computer-using Vais.
>
> I.e., few to none of the Vai people.

If the Vai script is added to the Universal Character Set, enabling
texts encoded in Vai to be exchanged electronically, and software to be
localized into Vai, and computer-using Vais to begin entering and
exchanging Vai text...

... and this ends up actually benefiting "few to none of the Vai
people..."

... then whom does it hurt?

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/