RE: short Unicode names?

From: Fang (SOTECH Albert) (fang@sotech.com.cn)
Date: Sun Jan 04 1998 - 20:17:06 EST


Would you please stop it to me? That means nothing.
Thanks.

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> From: Herbert Elbrecht[SMTP:elbrecht@compuserve.com]
> Reply To: unicode@unicode.org
> Sent: Saturday, January 3, 1998 5:49 AM
> To: Multiple Recipients of
> Subject: Re: short Unicode names?
>
> >
> >Werner Lemberg wrote this:
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there an algorithm how to convert long Unicode names like 'LATIN
> >> CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE' into short Adobe-ish names like
> 'Aacute'?
> >>
> >> With `short' I mean a name not longer than about 32 characters and
> no
> >> spaces in it.
> >>
> >> Or are there already short Unicode names defined? U+00C1 is not
> very
> >> descriptive...
> >>
> >I have a Unicode -> Adobe-ish names table I could mail you.
> >
> >--
> >Bjorn Brox, mailto:brox@corena.no
>
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>
>
> The problem is not with 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE' being an
> Adobe standard character - an AdobeGlyphList for backward
> compatibility
> within existing Adobe fonts is available for all these standard
> characters.
>
> The problem is with all characters outside the Adobe character
> repertory!
> And that's all additional Unicode characters! Who's to describe? For
> whom?
> What for? Will free-style naming really do for these characters - I
> wonder!
>
>
> Herbert Elbrecht
> elbrecht@SinoIndoRoman.com
> http://www.SinoIndoRoman.com
>



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