Delirium wrote:
But is it going to be possible from a language point of view? People have talked about automatic conversion, but several others have pointed out multiple academic studies on the subject, some from the Unicode committees, that have concluded it's nearly impossible to do automated conversion from one to the other (without fully solving AI anyway), as it's not a one-to-one mapping. The only reasonable thing I've heard proposed is doing a partial automatic conversion, and flagging the characters that can't be automatically converted for human intervention, but this doesn't sound like something that's going to be implemented in the forseeable future.
I think this is a question for the speakers of the language to talk to us about; it's really a question of mutual intelligibility, isn't it?
So far as I know, there is no major movement afoot to split the two. A few people support it, and one of the main ones, the only one who was actually working on the accidentally-created website, is a 15 year old American living in Arizona. I mention this not to say that a 15 year old American living in Arizona can't possibly be right about this, but rather to indicate what I understand *at the moment* to be the situation on the ground.
--Jimbo