[smc-discuss] ചില്ലക്ഷരങ്ങളുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയം

[Jinesh K J]

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hi Anil,


> Good suggestion Praveen except for few distortions.
> 
> Why should we rely on Unicode-5.0. The hegemony, or so called 'dictatorship'
> was there even in the formation of Unicode-5.0. The role of control
> characters (ZWJ and ZWNJ) in conjuncts or chillu formation of a particular
> language, as in the case of Malayalam in Unicode-5.0,  is not acceptable. It
> is a design fault of Unicode, which was made acceptable through market
> hegemony of few MNCs.
> 
> A community initiated standard should have a better design. Let us start,
> 

We have to do a better design, but I believe we should ensure
interoperability with Unicode too(It is possible for two standards to
exist in the world). Pure democratic rhetoric might not help a lot of
people to switch to what we propose, but the idea of not breaking the
language while encoding script should give people some idea.

What we need to follow, what errors to be corrected all have to be
discussed in deep and as Praveen said democratically. Problems with
Malayalam are visible because an active community is there to look at
changes and notifying people of their worries. For many languages,
people follow the simple easiest job of following what Unicode prescribes.

If we decide just majority of those who participate in discussions as
scale for resolving conflicts, i think it will just end up as another
UTC. We should be able to evaluate the proposals over their merit, may
even should be able to constitute committees of experts(may be different
committee for different "languages"). This discussion is a great first step.

I will suggest "Open Unicode" as the name of the project. I dont know
whether consortium has rights over the name unicode whether they have
registered it. It they have, we can go for common code too. It depends
on whether we want to fork or start from scratch. Both are kind of
tedious jobs and the efforts of a handful of people and some companies
who lead in the tech world really made the advance unicode did possible.
So, we surely need a focused working group to handle the matter.

Regards
Jinesh K J
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