Tim Partridge and Marco Cimarosti asynchronously wrote:
> plane-14 tag characters
I liked the idea at first, but there's a problem: the use of privately
constructed PUA registries turns the PUA into a kind of ISO IR, just the sort
of thing Unicode worked so hard to avoid. Plus, neither the Unicode
Consortium nor ISO/IEC 10646 would have anything to do with maintaining the
list of registry indices, so that too would have be managed privately.
Of course, there's also the problem of religious opposition to Plane 14 tags.
The language tag U+E0001 was DOA (deprecated on arrival), and judging from
Peter Constable's "Gack!!!" there is a genuine contempt among some for the
entire concept of plain-text tags (i.e. it's not just an objection to
language tagging, as I was previously led to believe).
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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