From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 17:36:29 CST
> Asmus, you don't treat the whole set in the current proposal either,
> having the corporate logos... so this also violates #10?
I realize that rationalists have difficulties with pragmatics.
But yeah. So?
Character encoding involves decisions that weigh many principles,
precedents, and practices. The Unicode Standard doesn't encode
trademarked logos, *even* if they occur in vendor character
encodings that people need to interoperate with. And the
precedent for that practice dates back to 1989, when the first
drafts of Unicode were cross-mapped with the MacRoman character
set.
So conversion of the Japanese telco SJIS gaiji for their
logo characters will involve fallbacks that might not roundtrip
exactly -- which is really no different than the situation for
the (non)-interoperability for such logo characters between
the three sets now anyway.
--Ken
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