On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2009, Han-Teng Liao (OII) wrote:
ask. We (internet researchers) need empirical research to see why and how the Unicode support is implemented in various projects.
I did not appreciate this point, and it is an interesting one. I haven't followed the literature that takes on standardization as a business or social science concern and so don't know if people have focused on Unicode at all. (I'm thinking of continuations of Cargill's "Open Systems Standardization" and Agre's course "Institutional Aspects of Computing" from the 90s.)
It is an interesting point, and I am more comfortable with the issues being framed this way - that is, looking at what people do rather than what information "wants". We had a session on standards at SHOT last year (Session 42 at http:// shotlisbon2008.com/program/conferenceschedule13.htm) with one paper on Korean Standard Character Code and Unicode by Dong-oh Park. A pdf of his abstract is available from the link; I don't know if he's on this list but I can find an email address for him if you want to follow up to get the full paper & references. Andy