Ken Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote:
> The IBM glyphs for the record mark, segment mark, and group mark,
> strike me as clearly in the camp of "Let's make up new symbols by
> crossing different numbers of horizontal and vertical lines." That's
> why I cited the already-encoded examples of such symbols -- all of
> which are encoded as unitary symbols, and none of which has any formal
> decompositions. I think we'd be heading down the rabbit hole if we
> looked towards trying to represent them by sequences of some existing
> base symbol with one or more lines in one orientation and some
> existing combining mark with one or more lines in the other
> orientation.
But it might make for some hilarious RFC 5242 moments.
I agree with Ken's main point: this sort of symbol is not what the
policy against new precomposed characters is all about.
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell Received on Tue Jul 19 2011 - 14:48:58 CDT
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