As always, we want to know that there's a real use case for encoding. Doing things on spec, especially in a case like this, is IMO not at all a good idea.
Peter
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From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:41 AM
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Subject: Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)
On 15 Jul 2011, at 13:36, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> If we take the needs of charaacter encoding experts when they write *about* characters to decide what to make a character, then we get many too many characters encoded.
I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument about "too many characters" is not compelling, as there are only some dozens of these characters encoded, not thousands and thousands or anything.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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