From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 18:52:27 CST
2009/1/6 Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>:
> The "proper solution" envisioned here would *obsolete* the need to
> resort to character-based, non-extensible hacks for transmitting
> pictographic symbols in the way the wireless carriers in Japan now
> are doing -- but it would not solve the *present problem* of
> dealing with the de facto existing characters *as* characters,
> which is what we are up against here.
So are Ewellic, Verdurian, Røzhxh etc., etc. characters existing *as*
characters. And any future ad-hoc code-point assignment to any
possible ad-hoc entities, be them signs, letters, characters, sound
files, whatever.
I have understood the argument of the UTC why they want these emoji in
Unicode ("they are currently handled by operators as characters in a
particular encoding scheme"), but I have not heard answers how they
wish to proceed in future if someone wants to have arbitrary
characters accepted based on the same argument/precedent. ("something
handled in some context as characters in a particular encoding
scheme")
I would be grateful if UTC could sketch an anticipated procedure.
/Sz
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