Re: tips on writing character proposal

11/9/2011 10:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:

> I'm new here, but have already read some of the online documentation
> for proposing new characters.

I think that a key statement that you have missed is at the end of
http://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html
which says:
“The fact that a symbol merely ‘seems to be useful or potentially
useful’ is precisely not a reason to code it. Demonstrated usage, or
demonstrated demand, on the other hand, does constitute a good reason to
encode the symbol.”

Note that the usage or demand needs to relate to use in text, not as
standalone symbols. Moreover, demonstrated actual usage in texts tends
to have much better chances than even well-described demand.

Yucca
Received on Wed Nov 09 2011 - 16:06:08 CST