Re: Just if and where is the then?

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 16:01:52 CDT

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African Oracle scripsit:

> Are we saying we have exhausted such necessity?

Yes.

> And what are these legacy-standard encodings?

Those devised by ISO, various national governments, IBM, Microsoft, and Apple,
roughly speaking.

> "No new composite values will be added". - Peter Constable
>
> The above sounds dictatorial in nature.

It's a statement of fact about the current intentions of the Unicode Consortium.
The time for new precomposed characters has passed.

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