On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:52:36 -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: > On 06/07/2016 02:48 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: > > I heard that someone was considering adopting ZWJ. They seemed to think > > that non-printables are not adoptable. But I was unable to find a clear > > list of criteria. The page that allows one to adopt said that it wasn't > > available, but that page really doesn't make it clear how one can test > > for this without actually doing the adoption. (Since it doesn't > > actually ask for your credit card number on the initial page, one can > > back out before the final commitment, but that's not a very friendly > > interface) > > > > After I wrote that, I found this that I previously overlooked > > "You can’t sponsor candidate characters (those not yet released in a > version of Unicode, such as the Emoji Candidates), nor certain > characters such as invisible ones." > > But why this rule. Why should someone be forbidden to adopt ZWJ?
Likewise I seriously considered adopting NNBSP, that is very important as a layout control, e.g. in the fr-FR locale, and is almost always stable in the applications, as opposed to NBSP. Indeed neither do I see any reason not to be able to adopt these characters, the less as there *is* a visible representation, displaying their abbreviation in a box. However I was aware from the beginning that my desire was unconventional. At least it isnʼt the kind of ideal gift for your niece as referred to on http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html
