This proposal is, in my opinion, similar to another discussion about giving unicode character to food allergy symbol that happened few months ago on this mailing list, which both idea want to use unicode characters to overcome language barrier, just that that proposal were about those icon while this one is about written text.If my memory is now working perfectly(or you can read through the archive for the list), back then people mentioned that to get something new into Unicode you need to first make it into an international standard and make it being used. Therefore to get a character into unicode traction is needed, and if you don't want PUA then using markup languages is something that pop out of my mind that can help develop those tractions. International standard does not necessarily mean ISO standard. And for encoding that also depend on other sources, the current system for flag would be dependent on update of operating system or font file in operating system to reflect the change in software, and that is if those system/font developers really update their files as soon as source files being changed. 2015/10/12 16:38 "William_J_G Overington" <wjgo_10...@btinternet.com>:
> > I believe using markup languages would be a better approach than getting > some new character. > > Thank you for posting. > > That would make an interesting discussion, yet is off-topic for this > thread. > > The topic for this thread is about the encoding process, not about the > merits or otherwise of the particular encoding proposal. > > The flags tagspace was encoded by reference to an existing ISO standard. > > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15145r-add-regional-ind.pdf > > Yet if the tagspace for a new proposal needs to be defined and there is no > existing ISO standard to which reference can be made, how is that tagspace > to become defined, by what process, by which committee, already existing or > new? > > Also, if the complete encoding depends on both of the encoding of a base > character into Unicode and of the encoding of a tagspace, so that both > items can be applied together by an end user, what is the infrastructure > mechanism to be so the complete encoding can take place? > > William Overington > > 12 October 2015 > > > > >