Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Asmus Freytag replied to Jeremie Hornus: Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ? And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph. These are "names" in the sense of an ID. That they are created by deriving them from

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 11/22/2011 04:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ? And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph. Unicode doesn't encode glyphs, it encodes characters. ~mark

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ? And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph. These are "names" in the sense of an ID. That they are created by deriving th

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Jeremie Hornus
Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ? And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph. J. On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote: > On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Ken Whistler
On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'AR

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: Hi! In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously name

RE: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Anbu wrote: > In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once > assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have > noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH > BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could > a

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-11-22 21:02, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC

name change

2011-11-22 Thread anbu
Hi! In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could anyone please clarif