> At 20:04 +0100 2002-01-29, Stefan Persson wrote:
> >Concerning glyphs U+0364 and U+0366 at
> >http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U32-0300.pdf: Aren't these the same as
> >U+0308 and U+030A? In old Swedish U+0364 was used for words written in
> >Fraktur (non-loan words), while U+0308 was used for words written in
> >"antikva" (loan words and most personal names).
>
> They are required for Middle High German texts. 0366 is debatable,
> but usage is up to the user.
> --
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
Additionally, at this point, the period for feedback on the BETA
for Unicode 3.2 is closed. The UTC meets next week, among other things,
to digest and decide on various issues that have come up from all
the feedback.
However, it should be noted that in any case, the decisions on
which *characters* are to be encoded for Unicode 3.2 are long
past. Those cannot be revisited now -- they are already on the
last legs of publication both for the Unicode Standard and for
10646. What the BETA period has been for is is trying to verify
the correctness of the various data files and the text of the
UAX that will be formally published in March as Unicode 3.2.
People who want to have an impact on what characters should or should
not be standardized in future versions of the Unicode Standard
would be well-advised to be considering the content of the
currently open amendments to 10646 (Amendment 2 to 10646-1 and
Amendment 1 to 10646-2). *Those* are the vehicles for characters
to go into Unicode 4.0, and *those* are where feedback still has
some chance of being taken into account and making a difference
in what gets standardized.
--Ken
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