On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: I think that'd be worth doing; I had a great chat with Michael Everson at our Berlin meetup (Michael's been involved in lots of Unicode standardization stuff over the years and has many tales to tell :) and it definitely sounds like it would be useful for us to be a little more on the inside at times to help push on requirements for specific language support, or making sure that concerns about labeling, character types, and normalization (shudder) get looked at and addressed. In comparison, we have a couple of folks who keep an eye on some of the W3C / WHATWG lists that are working on the HTML 5 specifications -- these are mostly open lists which made it easier for particularly interested individuals like Aryeh & Tim to pop on either for specific issues or just as voracious list readers. ;) Unicode's development has traditionally been a little more closed and old-fashioned -- not a horrible thing for something as delicate as the universal character set! -- but it does mean that if we want to be involved, we need to work with the system to make sure that we're heard. I'll see if we can figure out who gets jurisdiction internally on this. :) -- brion