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

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