Tales from the Archives

[Ken Whistler via Unicode]

Steffen noted:


On 8/20/2018 3:22 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso via Unicode wrote:
> It was just that i have read on one of the mailing-lists i am
> subscribed to a cite of a Unicode statement that i have never read
> of anything on the Unicode mailing-list.  It is very awkward, but
> i_again_  cannot find what attracted my attention, even with the
> help of a search machine.  I think "faith alone will reveal the
> true name of shuruq" (1997-07-18).
>
> --steffen

Fortunately, since I collect everything, this one has not been lost to 
the mists of
history yet. So here you go, another "tale from the archives", aka "every
character has a story".

--Ken

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 From kenw Thu Sep 18 14:23 PDT 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:20:29 -0700
From: kenw (Kenneth Whistler)
Message-Id: <9709182120.AA16670 at birdie.sybase.com>
To: unicode at unicode.org
Subject: War over 'shuruq' narrowly averted
Cc: kenw


Dateline: Geneva, Thursday, September 18, 1997

The ISOnominalists and the SInominalists met today at
the bargaining table in their long-running dispute over
whether the correct name of U+05BC should be:

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (shuruq)

or

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ OR SHURUQ

After considerable posturing and threats by both sides,
opposing camps reluctantly agreed that a compromise
solution was preferable to open flamewar. Unnamed sources
state that the new name to be revealed in a press
conference this evening is:

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (or shuruq)

Both sides have also now agreed to focus their attention
jointly at countering the antinomianist camp, which claims
that no names can be imposed by human moral strictures,
and that faith alone will reveal the true name of
shuruq.

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