On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:34:20AM -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Security and spoofing are very real issues that were never, as far as
> I know, even considered in the design of Unicode.
Unicode is a character encoding, not a glyph encoding. Furthermore, it's
a superset of a number of preexisting character sets, so that it was
possible for those users to move to Unicode without problems. Since
important preexisting character sets seperated Greek, Cyrillic and Latin
scripts, Unicode had to. Had Unicode not chosen to follow these
principles, ISO 10646 would have, and it would have become the dominant
character set, with the same problems.
In any case, what is your solution? When the American Mathematical
Society says "We need a SMALL CIRCLE for the mathematical texts", do you
say "no, we already have the unified LATGRKCRY SMALL O"? After they show
you that the two are distinct characters in their texts, do you still
refuse because "someone might get confused"? The Universal Character Set
can't afford to not encode characters like that.
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