On 6/5/2010 10:42 AM, Doug Ewell wrote, responding to Luke-jr:
"Draft" characters would be ones which are not final and can be
removed or replaced in the future, if they don't in the meantime gain
popularity within some reasonable timeframe.
There is no precedent for this in either Unicode or ISO/IEC 10646. If
you think it has been difficult persuading people that your characters
should be encoded in the existing framework, just try suggesting a
basic architectural change like this.
Speaking only with my person opinion on this one poin: Doug is right.
This won't happen. Once you have characters in real usage because a
standard was released that contains them, even if the standard called
them "draft", you'd have data "in the wild" that could potentially
become non-conformant.
Rick
