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I wrote:
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||  Voting terminated on 1992-04-10...

John H. Jenkins <jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com> wrote:
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|   The vote actually ended at the end of May.  Some countries got their
|   votes in late and were not counted.

Yes, that's right.  I confused the votes on ISO 10744 and ISO 10646.
1992-05-30 was the vote termination date for ISO DIS 10646.

|   I believe that the comments from Poland and Tunisia were not
|   accomodated for reasons similar to Turkey's (who wanted Latin 9 used
|   instead of Latin 1 in the first 256 code points; nobody else would
|   agree to that).  The UK and Denmark were accomodated and appear to
|   be satisfied with the accomodations.

Part of the reason Denmark voted NO was to allay the Turkish claims,
too.  This was a formally supported move, but several countries just
voted YES to indicate their displeasure.

|   Turkey, BTW, used its diplomatic corps to exert pressure on other
|   countries to go along with them.  I think this backfired and lost
|   them sympathy rather than winning them any.

Certainly!  Norway got into voting at the behest of Iceland, who were
worried about ISO 8859-1 being replaced, and their ETH and THORN going
the way of the dodo.  Turkey had completely neglected to allow for the
characters they suggested to be replaced, which also made people angry
at them.  I saw both letters, and found Turkey totally mindless.
Iceland's concern was understandable, but they did at least not use
their diplomatic corps to counter-act Turkey.

|   BTW, I'm told that 10646 set a record for the number of countries
|   participating in the vote.

Maybe we can "thank" Turkey for that... :-)

Best regards,
</Erik>
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