From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Sat Jun 05 2010 - 12:59:34 CDT
On 6/5/2010 10:42 AM, Doug Ewell wrote, responding to Luke-jr:
>
>> "Draft" characters would be ones which are not final and can be
>> removed or replaced in the future, if they don't in the meantime gain
>> popularity within some reasonable timeframe.
>
> There is no precedent for this in either Unicode or ISO/IEC 10646. If
> you think it has been difficult persuading people that your characters
> should be encoded in the existing framework, just try suggesting a
> basic architectural change like this.
Speaking only with my person opinion on this one poin: Doug is right.
This won't happen. Once you have characters in real usage because a
standard was released that contains them, even if the standard called
them "draft", you'd have data "in the wild" that could potentially
become non-conformant.
Rick
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