From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 01:38:37 CST
Like some others here, I simply don't see the point of human-readable
machine-readable list. One or the other, yes, but not both at the same time.
There is absolutely no need for an immutable machine-readable list to be
human-readable /at the same time/. U-[xx]xxxx works perfectly well as a unique
machine-readable identifier, /and/ would work perfectly well as a localization
key. (In fact, a database table which uses a numeric primary key is likely to
be more efficient than a database table that uses a string primary key).
The general public aren't quite as Unicode-savvy as some of the more technical
folk on this list. If Joe Public were to encounter the word "BRAKCET" in an
application like BabelMap, for instance, they would assume this to be a bug in
BabelMap. And perhaps quite rightly - since why should BabelMap be regarding
machine-readable unique identifiers as if they were names anyway? (But it does
... and it even has a "Search for character by name" feature).
I honestly think that deprecating the entire list wouldn't be such a bad idea
... /providing/ of course, it were supplemented by something, such as a
separate (modifiable) list for each locale, maintained within CLDR or some
other online resource.
Jill
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Peter Kirk
Sent: 21 April 2005 15:12
To: Asmus Freytag
Cc: Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: String name and Character Name
I don't know why there is a need for a
second "unique and immutable identifier" in addition to the U+xxxx code
point identifier. But given that there is such a list, its highly
restricted intended purpose should be made more clear. This must be done
to reduce the problem of people, even major software companies which are
Unicode consortium members, using the list in unintended ways as
meaningful text.
...AND...
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
Sent: 21 April 2005 15:28
To: Peter Kirk; Unicode Mailing List; Asmus Freytag
Subject: Re: String name and Character Name
(like in the Unicode regexps
using "\N{NAME}" specifiers that assume that this name is fixed over time
even if it looks "wrong").
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