Re: Terminal Graphics Proposal

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Oct 03 1998 - 05:28:56 EDT


Ar 14:24 -0700 1998-10-02, scríobh Frank da Cruz:
>> I for my part do NOT!!!! want to see these terminal graphic things in the
>> BMP. They belong in Plane 1.
>>
>Perhaps, but as the lawyers say, the door was opened by the characters
>already included in blocks at U+2400, U+2500, U+2600, and U+2700.

I will not support their inclusion in the BMP unless there is a really good
reason. (I'd still make TTFs if necessary though, because I am a loon.) The
list of characters I saw was rather long.

>In any
>case, the intention here is to help Unicode become somewhat more
>"technology-neutral".

The UCS is going to be used for centuries. Do we really think VT100
emulation will be needed via BMP support?

>Terminal emulation is a fact of life, and important
>to a significant number of serious and productive computer users; why should
>its special glyphs be excluded from the same status enjoyed by dingbats and
>astrological signs?

Because the dingbats are used in typography, and astrological signs have a
definite semantic.

>Seriously, I think terminal emulation is far more
>mainstream than many Unicoders seem to think, and I hope it is a worthy goal
>to welcome this consituency into the fold, thus allowing them to continue
>their work in their accustomed manner, rather than according to the dictates
>of haute couture, with the added bonus of uniform access to the world's
>writing systems.

I don't see the argument for BMP here.

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