From: UList@dfa-mail.com
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 18:11:02 CST
I know... this is kind of an informal advance proposal, intended to lead to
the UTC doing exactly that.
Though there is a second question of whether the Variation Selectors, or a new
block of differentiators, could be opened up for use as a "PUA for each
codepoint". This could allow user communities to set up auxilliary unofficial
standards (such as my Archaic Greek alphabets), if Unicode chose not to take
the effort in that regard. There would be some other benefits in preventing
PUA conflicts as well, whether user-community-standardized, or left to
individual font use.
Thanks,
Doug/ulist@dfa-mail.com
Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> Doug <UList at dfa dash mail dot com> wrote:
>
> > Is there actually any problem with using Variation Selectors as-is to
> > differentiate non-combining characters -- such as these applications:
> >
> > - Serbian Cyrillic Small "t"
> > - Coptic letterforms for Greek letter codepoints
> > - complete Archaic Greek and Asia Minor scripts aligned to Greek
> > letter codepoints
> > - several functions for two-directional case change with German Sharp
> > S
> > - alternate CJK ideographs and syllabographs
>
> Only the Unicode Technical Committee can define what sequences involving
> variation selectors are valid, and what they mean. End users may not
> make these decisions.
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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