What is the principle?

From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 10:23:35 EST

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    Hi,

    Ignoring all compatibility characters; ignoring everything that has gone
    before; and considering only present and future characters (that is,
    characters currently under consideration for inclusion in Unicode, and
    characters which will be under consideration in the future), which of
    the following is the PRINCIPLE which decides whether or not a character
    is suitable:

    (A) A proposed character will be rejected if its glyph is identical in
    appearance to that of an extant glyph, regardless of its semantic
    meaning, or
    (B) A proposed character will be rejected if its semantic meaning is
    identical to that of an extant character, regardless of the appearance
    of its glyph, or
    (C) A proposed character will be rejected if either (A) or (B) are true, or
    (D) None of the above
    ?

    Although this is a question about the future, no clairvoyance is
    required, since I am asking about the principle behind decisions, not
    about specific characters.
    Jill

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