Very true, but I was thinking more of things like uppercasing and lowercasing algorithms, regular expressions and the like. Font drawing is a bit out of my league ... not really my area of expertise.
Anyway, prophesising the future is a somewhere between a fun game, an implementation exercise, and a thought experiment. It's precisely BECAUSE we can see where a particular direction might lead that we can choose to avoid going there. Thanks for pointing that out. Jill -----Original Message----- From: Jim Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Proposed Draft UTR #31 - Syntax Characters That seems very dangerous. Such behavior is why people are often very wary of upgrading. But it is dubious that a Unicode upgrade will modify all fonts on the system to add new characters in the proper style, modify any and all translation tables to use them, modify all tailored sorts, change spell-checkers to recognize new valid spellings, change translation tables to other character encodings, modify legacy data to fit with the new version of Unicode.
