From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 23:06:59 EST
"Jim Allan" <jallan@smrtytrek.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, there is nothing to prevent the Unicode consortium or
> any other body or any single person from creating a new *additional*
> corrected set of names if the Unicode consortium or any other body or
> any single person wishes to do so.
>
> That would just be an alternative list of character names.
Of course anybody can make and use their own name list for their own purposes -
getting a new alternative name list added to the standard is another issue.
There is plenty of disagreement about what the "proper" name for many
characters should be - which is probably one of the reasons for the rule that
says once a name is assigned it cannot be changed.
If this rule wasn't there, Unicode and WG2 would get a constant stream of
proposals to "correct" the name of character U+XXXX - and then have to spend
time on discussing such proposals and voting on them. I think members of UTC &
WG2 have much more useful things to do with their time.
- Chris
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