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From:  Michael Everson
Date:  Sat Jul 31, 1999  12:04 pm
Subject:  Re: SignWriting & Unicode


> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
> > But to supply the Unicode people with a finished writing system that
> > will never change is impossible - but they tell me it will take
> > several years to develop Unicode anyway, so I will have to send them
> > the new handshapes as they come in.
>
> I wouldn't worry too much about this; there are
> Chinese-Traditional and Chinese-Simplified standards, so it seems
> reasonable to have more than one SignWriting standard.

That isn't how we are going to do it.

Michael Everson
Committee Member, ISO/IEC JTC1-SC2-WG2

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