On 06/05/2010 07:18 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
"William_J_G Overington" <wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com>
wrote:
I feel that the encoding of a portable interpretable object code into
Unicode could be an infrastructural step forward towards great
possibilities for the future.
And I think therein lies the problem. It's tempting to say "Ooooh, I
have a great idea, and if Unicode would go along with it, all kinds of
neat things would follow!" The trouble is, that puts the Unicode
Consortium in the position of somehow having to judge which ideas might
possibly have merit in the future and which will not. And if you think
it feels unfair *now*, when they're just saying "your idea is out of
scope," imagine how it would feel if they were saying "your idea is
in-scope, but we don't think it's cool enough." It isn't and should not
be the Unicode Consortium's job to sort through incoming ideas and
decide which ones are nifty enough to encode.
Unicode isn't here to make your dreams come true. It's here to encode
what's there and to enable people to do what they've already been doing,
not what you think it would be cool if they did. Yes, that creates a
chicken-and-egg problem (believe me, I know from attempts to get Klingon
encoded). But that's what the PUA is for.
~mark
