Generally speaking, these characters are not being added due to the UTC
choosing to "round out the collection in what seems to be productive ways"
so much as responding to actual requests from customers, members, and
experts on the various scripts.
Is there an actual case to be made for the usefulness of these suggested
characters in any known implementation?
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Muller" <emuller@adobe.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: TOP/BOTTOM HORIZONTAL BOX LINE: new characters?
> I am wondering whether to propose two new characters. The goal is to have
a consistent set of characters to represent the four sides and four corners
of a box.
>
> I looked at the Box Drawing block, but there are a few problems with
those:
> - there is no distinction of top or bottom; there is a single character
(U+2500) for both. Similarly for left/right.
> - there is a distinction between LIGHT and HEAVY, which I don't care for
> - the block is full
>
> I looked at the Block Elements block, but there are a few problems with
those:
> - there are no corner characters
> - the best candidates for the sides are UPPER/LOWER/RIGHT/LEFT ONE EIGHTH
BLOCK, and I don't really care for the "ONE EIGHTH" part; another way to say
it is that I am not really looking for blocks.
>
> I looked at the Miscellaneous Technical block, where we have U+23b8, LEFT
VERTICAL BOX LINE and U+23b9, RIGHT VERTICAL BOX LINE (both proposed for
Unicode 3.2) as well as U+231C-231F, TOP LEFT/TOP
> RIGHT/BOTTOM LEFT/BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER. This is almost perfect: what is
missing is TOP HORIZONTAL BOX LINE and BOTTOM HORIZONTAL BOX LINE.
>
> What I am wondering is whether it's better to propose those two new
characters, or to ask for alternates names for U+23BA, HORIZONTAL SCAN
LINE-1 (alternate name: top horizontal box line), and U+24BD,
> HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-9 (alternate name: bottom horizontal box line)?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Muller.
>
>
>
>
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