I think Jim meant "using the PUA for presentation form glyphs",
and I think he's write that the basic premise of Unicode is to
provide interchangeable encoding of characters (rather than
glyphs).
Peter
From: <jage@loc.gov> AT Internet on 02/23/2000 06:08 AM
Received on: 02/23/2000
To: Peter Constable/IntlAdmin/WCT, <unicode@unicode.org> AT
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cc: <unicode@unicode.org> AT Internet@Ccmail
Subject: Re: PUA
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:
> James E. Agenbroad wrote:
> >Using the PUA for glyphs sems contrary to the our basic
premises,
>
> Wait. What premises? Who is "we"?
>
> >but can we prevent consenting users from doing so?
>
> [snip]
> Ciao. Marco
>
>
>
Wednesday, February
23, 2000 The 'premise' is for efficient communication among
computers one assigns codes to characters, not glyphs; 'we' is
the authors and users of Unicode. Did I get this wrong?
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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