On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, Carsten Bormann wrote:
In cases of outright errors in
character names such as misspellings, a character may be given a formal
name alias.
Right. Do we use the original, possibly broken name (which is at least
promised to be stable) or the corrected one? There are a couple hundred alias
names, so this isn’t entirely theoretical.
(Having to ask that question puts me in the camp of liking U+NNNN more, but
putting the most corrected name at the time of writing *as well* might help
readers.
[1] might give us some easy ways to to make that happen, but unfortunately the
[2] referenced from [1] does not indicate how the name is chosen.
This is a defect.)
I was hoping we would expect the authors and editors to use a little
common sense. In the usual case that the name is not broken, they can use
it. If the name might be confusing or the number is important to the
point they're making, they can use the number or maybe both. Let's not
try to specify this down to the last pixel.
R's,
John
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