RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

So you want to be able to discuss NBSP (say) in plain text. You can already do that; in fact, you have multiple ways that everybody here will have no difficulty understanding:

"NBSP"
"no-break space"
"U+00A0"

Creating a different character for SYMBOL FOR NBSP doesn't make communication here any easier; in fact, it would lead to confusion as to whether you are, in fact, meaning to refer to NBSP or to SYMBOL FOR NBSP.

Peter

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From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:26 AM
To: unicode Unicode Discussion
Subject: Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

What I see is a certain unreasonability reflecting a certain conservatism. Text about the Standard is important, and should be representable in an interchangeable way. Here { } is a Right to left override character. character. I want to talk about it in a way that is visible. Oops. I can't do it interchangeably.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Tue Jul 19 2011 - 20:22:18 CDT