Who's
Michael Everson
Michael Everson is a Dublin-based alphabetician, expert on the writing systems
of the world. His company, Everson Typography, supports minority-language
communities, especially in the fields of character standardization and
internationalization. He is one of the co-authors of the Unicode Standard, and
is a Contributing Editor and Irish National Representative to ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC2/WG2, the committee responsible for the development and maintenance of
the Universal Character Set...
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc21/b028.html
Everson Typography
What's
Unicode?
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the
platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. The Unicode
Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem,
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many
others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java,
ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to
implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern
browsers, and many
other products.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
Approved Minutes of the UTC 88 / L2 185 Joint Meeting
The UTC accepts the Osmanya script with the character names
as documented in L2/01-284, to be encoded at 10480..104A9.
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran
10 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle,
PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal)
0 against
2 abstain (Reuters, RLG)
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-088-200108.html
far Soomaali "Somali writing" or
Cismaanya, was devised in 1920-1922 by
(Cismaan Yuusuf
Keenadiid) to represent the Somali language. It replaced an attempt by Sheikh Uweys of the Confraternity Qadiriyyah (died 1909) to devise an Arabic-based orthography for Somali. It has in turn been replaced by the Latin orthography of Muuse Xaaji Ismaaciil Galaal (1914-1980). In 1961 both the Latin and Osmanya scripts were adopted for use in Somalia, but in 1969 there was a coup, with one of its stated aims the resolution of the debate over the country’s writing system. Latin orthography was adopted finally in 1973. Gregersen said in 1977 that some 20,000 or more people use Osmanya in private correspondance and in bookkeeping and that several books and a fortnightly journal
Horseed ("Vanguard") was published, all
"cyclostyped" which I take to be equivalent to "cyclostyled" and to mean 'mimeographed'. 