----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Stefan Persson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Sampo Syreeni'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: Codes for codes for codes for... (RE: Chromatic font research)
> Stefan Persson wrote: > > From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Or 127 ASCII code points? > > > Or ca. 9000 JIS code points? > > > > They are already encoded, aren't they? > > No, they aren't. Unicode encodes the same characters encoded by ASCII (at > the same code points) and the same characters encoded by JIS (at different > code points), but it does NOT(*) include the ASCII or JIS code points > themselves. That would be like assigning a code to represent a code which > represents a character. > > (*: Actually, 33 ASCII code points are encoded in range U+2400..U+2422, to > allow visible symbols for ASCII control codes). I see. How do I propose millions of Unicode code points for inclusion in the stantard? ;-) Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
