Re: Draft 3 of the proposal to encode an EXTERNAL LINK SIGN in the BMP

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@icu-project.org)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 12:21:07 CDT

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    > but there are still many
    common symbols that it would be useful to encode as characters, even
    if there is not clear evidence of their use in a plain text context.

    Here I disagree. If there is not strong evidence of their use in a
    plain-text context, then we don't have any call for encoding them.

    Mark

    On 8/8/06, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > On 07/08/06, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > I have been proposing symbols piece-meal for years. It would be
    > > pleasant if it were not as difficult as it has been. Many of the
    > > symbols we have encoded were put there not because of any particular
    > > utility, but because they were inherited from other character sets.
    > > There are gaps which could (and should) be filled.
    > >
    >
    > I agree with Michael on this. Unicode now has quite a large set of
    > symbols that many people find very useful; but there are still many
    > common symbols that it would be useful to encode as characters, even
    > if there is not clear evidence of their use in a plain text context.
    >
    > Andrew
    >
    >

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