From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 04:12:31 CDT
On 06/09/05, Patrick Andries <patrick.andries@xcential.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly. If they are used (by several authors), then they can
> legitimately be proposed for encoding. I always thought this was a
> simple litmus test, rather than reason by analogy and imagine how people
> could be using a rare (defunct ?) American invention in other cultures.
>
The minutes from the May UTC meeting
(<http://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-103-200505.html>)
gives an action on Michael to "[p]rovide further usage information and
documentation on inverted interrobang from the Spanish user
community", which I interpret to mean that the UTC agrees that this
character should be encoded on the basis of actual usage rather than
potential usage.
Andrew
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