Is there a place on unicode.org which describes the concept of properties in greater detail?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Other properties accrue more directly to characters, per se. > They attach to the abstract character, and get associated with > a code point more indirectly by virtue of the encoding of that > character. The numeric value of a character would be a good example > of this. No one expects an unassigned code point or an assigned > dingbat character or a left bracket to have a numeric value property > (except perhaps a future generation of Unicabbalists). > > > There are no corresponding features in other character sets usually. > > Correct. Before the development of the Unicode Standard, character > encoding committees tended to leave that property assignments > either up to implementations (considering them obvious) or up > to standardization committees whose charter was "character > processing" -- e.g. SC22/WG15 POSIX in the ISO context. > > The development of a Universal character encoding necessitated > changing that, bringing character property development and > standardization under the same roof as character encoding.
