[Lexicog] Re: Using older dictionaries

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

Michael Everson wrote:
>For the African syllabaries now entering the digital world, we have to
>at least try to ensure that the ordering makes some kind of sense

While I agree that these systems ought to have sensible orderings,
I wonder about the locus for this effort. That is, if I am correct
in thinking that "we" means "the Unicode Consortium", is that the
appropriate group to be choosing orderings? If there is an existing
ordering, of course it makes sense to encode the characters in that
order, but if there isn't, I don't see why it is necessary to include
an ordering in Unicode (beyond choosing some order for the encoding).
After all, sort order depends on the locale (that is, combination of
language and country/user group) and may vary within a "script",
which is really a typographical rather than linguistic concept.

Bill
 


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