Am 24.05.2013 um 20:40 schrieb Michel Suignard:
> Encoding pictographic symbols into Unicode is not an exact science.
I’m a researcher on matters like this for many years. I need to reply to that.
“Encoding alphabets to Unicode is not an exact science” – what does it tell?
The sentence is true and yet it is nonsense.
Everything can be dealt with in a serious scientific way (“exact” is not the
point here).
One of the bodies in the world still ignorant of this fact to the very day is
Unicode. Which I feel is a mess.
For a corporation like MS in particular, it would be good policy (i.m.h.o.) to
support one or two reasonable research projects about today’s common
pictographic usage in general. This could then lead to sensible and
comprehensive proposals and would make the Universal Character Set better, not
just bigger.
If there would not be that old mantra “it cannot be” – which expresses contempt
rather than insight.
Respectfully,
Andreas Stötzner.
(DIN)
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