[smc-discuss] ചില്ലക്ഷരങ്ങളുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയം

[Jayadevan Raja]

It seems from the replies that many people are interested in ending the
dictatorship in standardisation (pun is intended!).

Since we have the example of Unicode in front of us, we will be able to
develop a standard, by studying what the Idiosyncrasies and blemishes of
Unicode are. In particular, we will be able to develop the 16-bit standard
originally Unicode intended, by avoiding the pitfalls Unicode has fallen
into.

If we start from scratch, the following changes can make the standard better
than Unicode:
(1) Disallowing composite characters (Like decomposing Chinese into the
basic radicals)
(2) Removing the historical inaccuracies in naming (Eg: In Unicode,
Hindu-Arabic numerals are placed in the section 'Basic Latin' just for
compatibility with ASCII. We know that these were the contributions of
Indians, and not Romans).

If we start from scratch, with encoding-converters for mitigating any
compatibility issues, a single width, 16-bit standard can house all the
needed characters. But for success, this would have to be a "High Priority
Project". And, since we have made "Gnu Not Unix", we  will be able to make "
** Not Unicode" (With something in the place of ** )"!



2011/1/21 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>

> 2011, ജനുവരി 19 8:34 വൈകുന്നേരം നു, കെവി & സിജി <kevinsiji at gmail.com>
> എഴുതി:
> >> Only if we develop something, can we develop that optimised for our
> uses.
> >> For this, wouldn't it be a good idea if FSF comes up with a better
> standard?
> >
> > I support this suggestion.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> How many would join in, if we were to start a new community managed
> standard for character encoding where every language community would
> have a final say and some US companies? It would be based on unicode
> 5.0 and any new changes would go through community process. Those who
> are OK with unicode 5.1+ can continue with Unicode. It would be a fork
> of unicode, plus a community controlled update process where internet
> technology ie, anyone with an internet connection can participate, for
> those who do not have an internet connection, we can think of
> simulatneously hosting sessions in universities or as true
> collaboration those wo have an internet connection can share it with
> thier neighbours ans friends to help them participate in this process.
> No company with deep pockets who can afford to send people to silicon
> valley for unicode meetinngs would be considered superior than someone
> who lives in a remote village in Kerala who can access a computer in
> an akshaya center or a public library. There would not be huge
> membership fees, anyone interested in participation would be allowed.
> What would be the guidelines? We don't know yet. We will have to build
> it. It would not be accepted by anyone easily. We would be running it
> on our own systems, we will have to have converters between unicode
> and our encoding (say common code or common code technology
> collective), well you need that anyway between unicode 5.1 and unicode
> 5.0. We will fight it out and see who wins. We would not accept any
> monopoly on it like what unicode enjoys - we will show the world that
> there is an alternative to monopoly and corporate control over our
> standards and language.
>
> How many of you would join such a struggle? It would not be easy, it
> would be long, but one thing is sure, we would be giving control of
> our language back to its right ful owners, the people. We may even
> fail completely, but we would be happy that we fought for our
> language, we tried, we fought for something we believe to be just, may
> be someone in future seeing our courage would take it forward and
> bring victory for our language and people.
>
> Still looks like a fairy tail? History is what we make it. We don't
> have to accept any injustice or dictatorship (at least for technology,
> for everything else it is still a long struggle).
>
> Praveen
> Happy Hacking
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Thanking You,
Jayadevan V
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