Re: Unicode for words?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 09:19:17 CST

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Richard Cook <rscook at socrates dot berkeley dot edu> wrote:

> Well, why stop with words, my lord? Why not just encode all sentences,
> paragraphs, pages, chapters, books, libraries, or your higher level
> unit of choice, for that matter.
> ...
> Whether you choose to associate a single glyph with your private-use
> code point, or an entire book, why, that's up to you (and your
> software).

Indeed it is. All of these things are possible. But, as I said
yesterday, any such scheme is out of scope for Unicode.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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