> FYI, got this reply from John about the CSUR.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
> Date: Feb 4, 2008 12:17 PM
> Subject: Re: CSUR help
> To: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> Cc: cowan@ccil.org
>
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> Mark J. Reed scripsit:
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>> Sorry to bug you about something you no longer maintain, but folks on
>> CONLANG-L are saying they submitted scripts months ago and got no
>> response. Nor did emailing Mr. Everson directly yield one. So I
>> thought you might have some insight into what's going on behind the
>> scenes there?
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> Michael is a busy, busy, busy man. He runs around the world trying
> to get enough information to encode scripts for minority languages
> on a shoestring budget while typesetting books in Irish to pay his
> personal bills. Hobbyist stuff, however entrancing, goes to the bottom
> of the list.
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> Furthermore, he's on a deadline, even if a soft one: eventually the PHBs
> are going to decide that Unicode has "enough" characters -- already it
> can handle all the commercially important writing systems -- and shrink,
> then cut off, funding. Whatever is not encoded by then will have to
> wait, potentially forever. Plus there is no one who can do what he does,
> and he has no logical successor with the necessary combination of skill,
> expertise, and bloody-mindedness.
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> Feel free to publish this on conlang or elsewhere.
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> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
http://ccil.org/~cowan
> The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
> on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
> Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land,
> to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
> --Thomas Henry Huxley
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