Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Asmus Freytag
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Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 12/23/2014 1:51 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: William_J_G Overington wrote: 5. Are the proposed characters in current use by the user community? No This appears to be a major change in encoding policy. This, in my opinion, is a welcome, progressive change in policy that allows new characters f

Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2014/12/24 09:50, Tex Texin wrote: True, however as William points out, apparently the rules have changed, I hope the rules get clarified to clearly state that these are exceptions. so it isn’t unreasonable to ask again whether the rules now allow it, or if people that dismissed the idea

RE: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Tex Texin
True, however as William points out, apparently the rules have changed, so it isn’t unreasonable to ask again whether the rules now allow it, or if people that dismissed the idea in the past would now consider it. Personally, I think this is the wrong place for it, and as has been suggested

VS: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
Mr. Overington, The question of support for localizable sentences has been raised by you on several occasions. For a number of valid reasons, It has never received any noticeable support, let alone the kind of support that you are asking for now. Sincerely, Erkki I. Kolehmainen Til

Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wrote: > 5. Are the proposed characters in current use by the user community? > No > > This appears to be a major change in encoding policy. > This, in my opinion, is a welcome, progressive change in policy that > allows new characters for use in a pure electronic tech

Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread William_J_G Overington
Unicode encoding policy There is a document. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14250.htm Within the document, the following are interesting items. E.1.7 Emoji Additions: popular requests [Edberg, Davis, L2/14-272] Discussion. UTC took no action at this time. Later, in the same document is the followi