From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 03:18:09 CST
Richard Wordingham wrote:
> That is a relatively harmless fault - someone looking for 'fthora
> skliron chroma vasis' is not going to pick the wrong character. On the
> other hand, someone looking for Lao fo sung could very easily pick the
> wrong character from a pick list - with a legible name, why bother to
> look at the very tiny distinction in the top left hand corner. (It's
> illegible in the Windows character map.) This will cause confusion for
> a thousand years - changing the name would only cause confusion for five
> years!
Since there are a number of characters in Unicode (not just in the Lao
block) with confusing or downright misleading names maybe applications
like Windows Character Map should display a set of user friendly &
accurate descriptive names rather than the official immutable CHARACTER
NAMES.
- Chris
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