Assuming that SignWriting display controls can be applied to _any_ character will result in a large number of alternate encoded representations for text elements. If encoded, then I will expect UTC to stipulate that rendering engines must not allow such display controls to affect the display of any other characters.
Peter From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Jean-François Colson Sent: 08 June 2012 04:32 To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Latin chi and stretched x Le 08/06/12 10:13, Michael Everson a écrit : On 8 Jun 2012, at 01:52, Jean-François Colson wrote: 15 rotation characters have already been proposed for signwriting: http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4090.pdf Look at page 4. If those characters could be applied to Latin letters, we’d have: ʁ = ʀ + SWR13 ᴙ = ʀ + SWR9 ᴚ = ʀ + SWR5 ᴝ = u + SWR3 ᴟ = m + SWR7 That would be very practical. This would absolutely be the wrong thing to do. Why?
