Rick, Yucca, Van, Mark, Asmus, Christoph, and others,
Thank you for all your responses. They have really helped me to clarify the
goal and direction I need to take.
I certainly can appreciate the argument for encoding only textual characters
that already have demonstrated use cases. You
On 11/15/2011 8:22 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
I certainly can appreciate the argument for encoding only textual characters
that already have demonstrated use cases. You can't include every imaginable
thing, so you have to draw a line somewhere.
On the other hand, it appears to me that by
As I indicated in my reply to you, some of the symbols in your list can be
found in text. And I think I know where I could lay my hands on examples
for that. For the others, you should know where you've encountered them.
So, the question remains: are these used in text and are you up to the
Larson, Timothy E. TELarson at west dot com wrote:
On the other hand, it appears to me that by accident of popularity, you may
create the opportunity to get your favorite symbol encoded. It seems a bit
backwards that a random character could get encoded by virtue of being in
the right
Mark E. Shoulson:
But Unicode isn't about encoding what would be neat to encode. It's about
encoding _text_, (including things that have been encoded before).
It’s sometimes non-obvious, though, what one should consider as text and what
one should not, e.g. mathematic formulae.
I would
Hello!
I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation for
proposing new characters. I'm still a bit unsure how to go about it. Or even
who can do it. Can individuals submit ideas, or do you need to be the
representative of some agency or group? How much supporting
11/9/2011 10:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation
for proposing new characters.
I think that a key statement that you have missed is at the end of
http://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html
which says:
“The fact that
From: Larson, Timothy E. TELarson_at_west.com
Hello!
I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation for
proposing new characters. I'm still a bit unsure how to go about it. Or even
who can do it. Can individuals submit ideas, or do you need to be the
representative
On 11/09/2011 03:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
Hello!
I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation for
proposing new characters. I'm still a bit unsure how to go about it. Or even
who can do it. Can individuals submit ideas, or do you need to be the
On 11/9/2011 6:08 PM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
On 11/09/2011 03:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
Hello!
I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation
for proposing new characters. I'm still a bit unsure how to go about
it. Or even who can do it. Can individuals
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