On 06/07/2016 06:25 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote:
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
Actually, someone suggested to me, only partially tongue-in-cheek that
Unicode pitch to Sesame Street
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street) that they adopt some
letters, as the show often (used to anyway) say that this episode is
brought to you by the letters Q and x (different letters sponsored
different episodes). Or maybe the pitch could be to the uncles and
aunts, "Now you can be like Sesame Street, and sponsor a letter."
