Re: name change

On 23 Nov 2011, at 00:21, Asmus Freytag wrote:

> On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote:
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>> Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ?
>> And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph.
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> These are "names" in the sense of an ID. That they are created by deriving them from a description of the characters appearance in many cases does not alter that fact.
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I was thinking the ID being the code point value itself, and the "name" a human readable description of it.

J.

> A./
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>> J.
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>> On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote:
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>>> On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, anbu_at_peoplestring.com wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> See: http://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
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>>> For names, this document states:
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>>> Name Stability
>>> Applicable Version: Unicode 2.0+
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>>> 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.
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>>> As you can see, Unicode 1.0 names are explicitly not covered.
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>>> A./
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Received on Wed Nov 23 2011 - 04:46:04 CST