Re: holes (unassigned code points) in the code charts

> It's generally not desirable, but there's no firm policy that blocks
> must have a single script value (and in fact, no such restriction
> exists in existing blocks).

> If strong technical reasons exist for placing a character into the
> BMP, there will be temptation to fill a "hole" if the BMP is otherwise
> full. Likewise, many, many years (decades) from now, similar pressure
> might exist should the rest of the code space become filled.

I just noticed that filling in holes with characters that don't
conceptually fit into the block would necessitate a different
presentation of the blocks (by "presentation" I mean how the code charts
are presented). Currently blocks have descriptive names. If the
descriptions no longer fit, things would become messy.

Stephan
Received on Fri Jan 04 2013 - 08:09:48 CST