Why Unicode will never endorse certain proposals
By making the Private Use Area private, the Unicode Consortium imposed on
itself a restriction to stay absolutely neutral on the use of these
characters. In other words, it cannot promote or
William Overington wrote:
However, there is something that I feel that the Unicode
Consortium could do, if it so wished, without violating
that rule. I suggest that the Consortium could,
if it so chooses, encode one or more regular unicode
characters together with a protocol so that
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:26:18AM -0700, James Kass wrote:
To store all such information in each relevant file using
non-BMP characters does seem a bit much. Even without
any new representations, providing this data in each file
might work if the user had only one or two such files,
but
David Starner wrote:
Character set information must go along with every non-Latin-1
webpage already, and most word processor formats already carry along
huge quantities of data, such that just adding the information
shouldn't be hard at all.
The charset declaration in HTML header is
At 13:52 +0200 2001-04-26, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
- Some living languages may experiment for years with a certain script,
before the community decides that that is their way, and eventually knock at
Unicode's door.
Which for instance we plan to do with Blissymbolics and SignWriting.
--
Michael
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