From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-08 22:39:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F84F468.7050702@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F8476FD.1030009@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1065677954 24.34.139.183 (Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:39:14 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:39:14 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:39:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:515 Date: 2003-10-09T05:39:14+00:00 List-Id: Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: > Georgian? This seems strange... well, I could expect any twist from Soviet > representatives in international organizations, but I can't guess any reasons > for this particular one. There could be another problem, which had some > political potential - there were several Russian letters that were used before > 1918, and were forcibly excluded from the alphabet by early Communist decree. > These letters weren't used in Soviet times (being qualified as things from > "damned Tsarist past"), and any attempt to give them some official status > could invoke resistance. Exactly, and Georgian retained one or more of them, was it D and/or G? Of course, the (old USSR) position was that Georgian was not a separate language from Russian, and the problem was separating GOST from that old dogma. I can't remember, and I just spent way too much time looking through JTC1/SC2/WG2 and WG3 documents on-line. I'd probably have to find the early votes on DIS 10646, and I don't even know if they are on line. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig