FUPA follow-up &c

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear Uralists,

while forwarding the following query by Michael Everson (below), let me ask Michael, Klaas and Trond what kind of feedback they expect.

My suggestion: comments and questions concerning the details and character(s) of the FUPA draft (http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/fupa-2002-01-30.pdf), especially if they are intended to provoke further discussion, are VERY WELCOME on URA-LIST as well (although you can, of course, send them exclusively to Michael, Klaas and Trond if you like).

However, I fail to see the relevance of mere statements of consensus ("yes, I also think that it is VERY IMPORTANT to include the FUPA characters in UNICODE") on this list. If such "votes" are still needed (as I understood they were once), I would like to suggest that the FUPA-UNICODE group gives another address where they can be sent and collected for future reference. After all, most of us (who count ;-) ) seem to agree that the FUPA-UNICODE project is extremely important for all our publication activities.

One reason for my impatience is the sad fact that the only effective way to keep spam off this list is to keep it hand-moderated, that is, I must personally accept and forward every incoming message. Please be patient if your contribution takes time to appear on the list!

Regards,
Johanna
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at

-- FORWARDED MESSAGE --

>
> At 08:52 +0100 2002-02-10, Pekka Sammallahti wrote:
> >  > I strongly recommend that the FUPA characters be included into the
> >  > Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards. The inclusion will be of great
> >  > importance for our future publication and communication activities.
> >  >
> >  > Yours,
> >  >
> >  > Pekka Sammallahti
> >  > Professor of Saami Language and Culture
> >  > Giellagas Institute for Saami studies
> >  > University of Oulu
> >  > Finland
>
> Dear Pekka,
>
> We very much appreciate your support, and this will help us. May I
> ask if this means that, in your view, our analysis of the missing
> characters is correct, and that we haven't left anything out?
> --
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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