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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/9/24 08:59, William_J_G Overington
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;">Readers who would like to try the
invention, whether by a thought experiment, or with pen and
paper, or by writing software, either privately or by also
posting in this thread may like the following research
scenario.</span></p>
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<p>No. That is not the purpose of this list. You want this to
happen? You want people to use this? Then DO IT. YOU do the
work, YOU do the research, YOU assemble a group of people who are
also interested in and believe in your idea. When it's a standard
other people use, THEN you can come to W3C or whoever and ask for
it to be canonized as some international standard (but not
Unicode, since it's already been determined to be out of scope.)
Unicode is not your personal incubator for pursuing your own
research and making it happen. We don't do it for anyone else
either. You complain about how your ideas are never followed up
here, but YOU are the one who isn't following up on them—not
following up in the right place, that is. You insist on trying to
get Unicode to do the work for you, but YOU need to go and develop
these ideas and GET THEM IN USE.</p>
<p>Yes, there's the chicken-and-egg problem, and I whined and
bitched about that an awful lot in trying to get Klingon encoded.
But even then, even back at the beginning when there was "too
little usage" because it wasn't encoded, there WAS some usage, and
people were working on it and people were using it, even at the
small scale, and that community grew and people contributed and
now usage is definitely not lacking. The chicken-and-egg problem
is annoying and possibly a bit unfair, but not insurmountable.</p>
<p>You've developed these ideas on your website. Go find some
like-minded people and raise a community that wants to use it,
people who will write software to make it happen, etc. You can
use the PUA, that's what it's for, if that's how you want to do
it. Experience should tell you that you are unlikely to find many
such like-minded people on this list, and this list isn't here for
you to recruit for your own research anyway.</p>
<p>You have good ideas? Then put them to use. It isn't Unicode's
fault that they aren't getting used.</p>
<p>~mark<br>
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