For unique identifiers for every person, place, thing, etc, consider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier which are
indeed 128 bits.
What makes you think a single "glyph" that represents one of these
3.4⏨38 items could possibly be sensibly distinguishable at any sort of
glance (including long stares) from all the others? I have an idea for
that: we can show the actual *digits* of some encoding of the 128-bit
number. Then just inspecting for a different digit will do.
Now, what about a registry for "important" (and
not-necessarily-important) UUIDs for key things and people, which
associates them with an image of some kind? Some sort of global icon?
And indeed, perhaps used for Internet-of-Things-like things? Not
necessarily a bad idea—but decidedly outside of the scope of Unicode.
(Maybe you could even assign your beloved sentences to some UUIDs and
stick them in such a registry. Again, who knows, maybe a decent idea.
But it ain't Unicode.)
~mark
On 04/02/2018 02:15 PM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote:
Doug Ewell wrote:
Martin J. Dürst wrote:
Please enjoy. Sorry for being late with forwarding, at least in some
parts of the world.
Unfortunately, we know some folks will look past the humor and use this
as a springboard for the recurring theme "Yes, what *will* we do when
Unicode runs out of code points?"
An interesting thing about the document is that it suggests a Unicode code
point for an individual item of a particular type, what the document terms an
imoji.
This being beyond what Unicode encodes at present.
I wondered if this could link in some ways to the Internet of Things.
