Re: character names (questions)

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 16:21:58 EDT


Ar 11:46 -0800 2000-04-06, scríobh John Cowan:

>> 2. The naming guidelines for 10646 will be up whenever it is published.
>>They are
>> limited to uppercase letters from A-Z, digits 0-9 and hyphen-minus (maybe
>> another character in there too -- I can't remember offhand).
>
>Nope, that's all. Digits are discouraged, and are only used to represent
>their shapes, as in LOW-9 QUOTATION MARKs.

Not quite. Digits are disallowed in word-initial position within character
names, and while they ar presently pretty much only used to represent
shapes, there are lots of character names proposed for Plane 1 (Egyptian
Hieroglyphs, Indus, Rongorongo, etc.) where the character name is really
its catalogue number (to be preceded by a letter of some sort; I think I
used H000-H999 for Indus (Harappan), R for Rongorongo, etc).

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