Re: Custom characters (was: Re: Private Use Area in Use)

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM John <idou747_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Mostly just a matter of upgrading the character size.

Which totally blows any concern with text size out of the water. Using 30
bytes to define certain very rare characters and 1 byte to define ASCII is
way better then using 8 bytes to define all characters.

I think this stuff could be relatively easy to define and standardise. You
> could basically define the entire technology in 1 A4 document. People have
> just got to want it badly enough to agree on it, and give it the imprimatur
> of the consortium.
>
> Then define it. It doesn't need Unicode involved at all, unless nobody
really wants it enough to use it without it getting tossed into the Unicode
package.
Received on Thu Jun 04 2015 - 09:40:58 CDT