At 07:33 AM 11/8/01 -0600, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
> >While this
> >provides an overall much more useful set of math symbols, it does pose the
> >kinds of questions Eric raises.
>
>How different is that problem from this: this year Joni creates a bunch of
>docs using some PUA char, but next year it gets added to Unicode. Does she
>continue to use the pua codepoints in order to provide continuity? (I
>realise that there is some difference here; I'm just wondering how
>significant is is.)
In the case cited by Eric, there is a (possible) distinction. We coded MOST
cases like this via VS1 for that reason (primarily glyphic distinction) but
decided on some for which we made the distinction by adding characters. Had
to do with various subtleties, but the range of documents affected is
minuscule.
A./
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