From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 15:34:23 EST
Tibetan experts requested that yung-drung-chi-khor and
yung-drung-nang-khor be added to the standard. Some people insisted
that they be unified with the CJK clones. I don't personally think
that this is a particularly good idea. It has ramifications for font
binding and is, frankly, one of those silly unifications. In other
contexts we leave CJK to its own devices. But "symbol squeamishness"
on the part of those who preferred the unification won the day at
that time, and we were encoding other Tibetan symbols which took
precedence.
To respond to Mark Shoulson, one could consider that Hitler's
svastika was the logo of the National Socialist Party, and therefore
should not be encoded.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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