From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 04:43:23 CST
2009/1/16 Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>:
>
> I have an UTC action to update UTR#39, which provides for sets of characters
> that people may want to exclude from identifiers. It has an 'archaic'
> category, and I need to update the contents.
I'm not quite sure why archaic scripts and archaic characters should
be excluded from identifiers. Many archaic scripts (e.g. Runic) and
archaic/obsolete characters (e.g. long s) have widespread current
usage, and I can envisage users wanting to make use of them in
identifiers.
> Independently, in doing a character picker
> (http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/char-picker), we found it useful to put
> the archaic/obsolete characters in separate sections.
It's probably just me, but I found this to be one of the least helpful
features of the character picker when I tried it out. I personally
find it much more helpful to have all characters of the same script in
the same place, regardless of whether they are in common current usage
or not.
Andrew
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