From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 12:20:28 CST
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Fynn
>> ... how do you define character identity?
>> ... how do you know they are not mere *glyph
>> variants* of the character FLEDGELING?? Having had assigned different
>> private JIS-codes in the operators' private standard does not make
>> them different characters, as we've seen it with preexisting standards
>> of Arabic (having a codepoints for every positional variant) or the
>> previously cited Chinese national standard using PUA for precomposed
>> Tibetan glyphs!
>
> BTW This is not hypothetical, there are already cell phones available in
> Tibet which use a pre-composed Tibetan character set:
> <http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=30325>.
And all of those pre-composed elements can be represented using existing Unicode characters with reliable round-trip-ability. So, we won't be needing to encode those as separate characters in Unicode (just in case anybody was wondering).
Peter
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