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From: "Daniel Yaqob" <dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu>
To: unicode-inc@unicode.org
Subject: New Ethiopic Script Proposal
Cc: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu
Status: RO


Greetings Unicode,

  I am a representative of a technical committee that has recently picked
up the task of of devising a system for the implementation of Ethiopic script
within the Unicode framework.  The original effort made by a collection of
Ethiopians from acedemia and the professional world, in conjuction with
Joseph Becker of Unicode/ISO, came to an end in August of 1993 with the
publication of a final draft proposal.

  We have picked up where the Committee for Standardization of Ethiopian Script
(CSES) left off in 1993 and have revised the draft proposal following the
recommendations of Mr. Becker and committee members at that time.  We have now
reached a point with the new version of the draft proposal that we feel is
very near its ultimate form.  We wish now to invite a representative from
the Unicode organization to review and make recommendation on our proposal at
this time just prior to its completion.

The html form of the new proposal may be found at:

     http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/utc/proposal/

Please inform us when a representative has had an oppurtunity to review
the draft proposal.  We would very much like to hear his/her comments on
the direction the document is taking as well as pose our own questions
to the reviewer on our course of actions.



   Very Truly,

        -Daniel Yaqob







PS: On-line Internet resources for Ethiopic script are available at:

     http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/fidel/fidel.html