Re: names of the control characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 05:58:05 EST


At 12:33 -0800 2002-02-03, Mark Davis wrote:
>This has bitten more than a few people. For political reasons, having
>to do with the synchronization of names to ISO 10646, the name fields
>are empty for the control characters. That is because (at least in
>theory) people could have other semantics for those characters.

I would really favour challenging WG2 to accept reality and reference
the glyphs and names at least informatively in 10646. I'd support it
in committee.

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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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