Re: name change

Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ?
And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph.

J.

On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote:

> On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, anbu_at_peoplestring.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once
>> assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed
>> some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE'
>> (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could anyone
>> please clarify me on this?
>
> Unicode 1.0 was merged with an ISO draft into a joint character encoding. In this process, different naming conventions got rationalized, and some other changes were made to make this merged standard possible.
>
> You will find that all policies that prevent certain changes have a well-defined starting version. No changes are allowed for any new version, but sometimes, certain changes were made in early versions.
>
> See: http://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
>
> For names, this document states:
>
> Name Stability
> Applicable Version: Unicode 2.0+
>
> The Unicode Name property value for any non-reserved code point will not be changed. In particular, once a character is encoded, its name will not be changed.
>
> As you can see, Unicode 1.0 names are explicitly not covered.
>
> A./
Received on Tue Nov 22 2011 - 15:26:48 CST