On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael Everson wrote:
> We are not adding characters to the presentation forms. It is likely
> that the answer to this proposal will be "please use one-to-many
> mapping".
Would you please give me the reference? I once heard this, but after
seeing a new proposal for "Arabic Tail Fragment" approved by UTC to be
encoded in "Arabic Presentation Forms-B" block (SC2/WG2 document N2322), I
thought I was wrong.
We found our proposal to be stronger than that, the character was used in
a national standard charset using a logical one letter to one character
model, vs a presentation-based codepage like CP420 that can not round-trip
even with the proposed character becuase of beasts in its positions 0x77,
0x80, 0x8B, and 0x8D. We would not have bothered these many people...
But at least there's a point in getting the proposal rejected. It will get
into the pipeline document so future people won't waste their time...
--roozbeh
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