(Fwd) Re: UPA accepted into Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646

[Johanna Laakso]

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Kazuto Matsumura <kmatsum at tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> Dear Michael, Klaas, Trond and Erkki!
>
> Congratualtions and Many thanks!
>
> Now it's up to us, the rank and file Uralists, how soon, if
> ever, the symbols become available on our PC/Mac. Let us
> show our readiness as well as eagerness to use them. It
> should be emphasized that they should be available world-wide,
> to use computerese (?), in every locale just as the IPA
> extensions are.
>
> You see, for example, the Cherokee alphabet on page 456 of The
> Unicode Standard Version 3.0, but are they available on your
> PC? Fortunately, people in Tokyo hardly ever need them, but
> the UPA symbols find users here too.
>
> Best,
> Kazuto Matsumura
> Tokyo
[original message omitted]
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> Kazuto Matsumura
> kmatsum at tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
> http://plaza3.mbn.or.jp/~kmatsum/
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