From fisseha@cig.mot.com Tue Jan 24 16:48:17 1995 Received: from motgate.mot.com by apollo.aoe.vt.edu via SMTP (920330.SGI/911001.SGI) for yacob id AA08452; Tue, 24 Jan 95 16:48:17 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA24041; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:48:11 -0600 Received: from motcig.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA05096; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:48:10 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by motcig.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id PAA20092; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:48:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199501242148.PAA20092@motcig.cig.mot.com> Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id PAA19679; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:48:09 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Subject: Re: Unicode (this time for sure) To: ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu (Yitna Benyam Firdyiwek) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:48:08 -0600 (CST) Cc: yacob, fisseha@cig.mot.com, abassa@sugar.neosoft.com In-Reply-To: <199501241837.MAA17603@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Yitna Benyam Firdyiwek" at Jan 24, 95 01:37:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1428 Status: R > > > > dan wrote... > > . . .to include other members of the > > software community in these discussions, I know of a few with email > > accounts. Critical to its implementation will be the question of the > > vendor "Can I use it?" I have seen some software packages that would > > have had to limit what they offered if working with the first > > proposal. Hence the value of their input during design of a table for > > yTna replied... > I am not sure about including any vendors specifically for the > above reason. I am not sure whether their issues could be > immediately addressed, and I'm afraid their concerns might > confuse us. If we invite participants who happen to be > vendors, it should be for what they can contribute to to the > problems posed by UNICODE, and not to address their commercial > interest. i have to agree with yTna. im sure it would be good to have developers in our group, however we must be careful not to tailor our proposal to fit a developers algorithm or scheme of addressing. that would be putting the carriage infront of the horse. developers should follow the standards, not the other way around. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------