Hi Bill, sorry for chiming in so late, but it took me some time to sort through all the mails after my holiday. On 08.10.2020 21:03, Bill Jouris wrote:
Mats,
I think it depends on the language and it's use. If we find another language /which meets the criteria we set out/ (for example, 1 million native speakers), but which we do not already include, then I think we should include it.
I would also be very wary to include a new language at this point. Certainly we all agree, we will not relaxing our criteria. If it's not within those, it's automatically out. However, even if it matches the criteria, if adding the language also adds one or more new characters, this would require us to go through the whole in-script and out-of-script analysis again. With everybody looking at the cases and voting on them. I don't think we should spend time on this at this stage. And adding the language while ignoring any new variant relationships is worse from my point of view. If it's not introducing any new characters, but just keeps the ones from Kirundi, then I'd say, ok, let's introduce this language as all the work has already been done. Otherwise I'd rather wait for public comment. Then you (or anybody else) can comment that we have missed the language (and maybe even some further languages) and we need to restart the work on the variant analysis for all new characters at the same time. Cheers, Michael -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Germany Dipl.-Informatiker Fon: +49 231 9703-0 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Software Development E-mail: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Register Court: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Chief Executive Officers: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp