On 04/04/2001 06:06:45 AM unicode-bounce wrote:
>My own position in HCI (national governmental body responsible for IT
>standards) has been against asking for encoding it. But after I found that
>we cannot map a key to a sequence of characters in X, that changed.
So, we have some broken technology. One way to fix it is to add a
presentation form to Unicode. But isn't there another fix -- to build into
X the ability to map a key to a sequence of characters (which surely would
be useful in other situations)? Of course, adding a presentation form in
Unicode is the easier thing to do. I wonder if it's the right thing to do.
>But no one has asked (or will ask) for them. I'll promise :) Rial is the
>national currency, it is in a standard character set, and it is on a
>standard keyboard. And we only ask for it to be encoded in a deprecated
>block. Too much?
Given all those circumstances, maybe not. Would you propose that it have a
canonical or compatibility decomposition? If so, I believe that would be
problematic with respect to stability of normalization forms.
- Peter
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