The Editor speaks re: Digits in character names

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 13:25:17 EDT


Ar 13:11 -0400 2000-04-07, scríobh B Paterson & J Fowler:
>Ken and Michael
>
>Ken wrote regarding digits in character names:
>>The latter three cases have broken the "only to represent their
>>shapes" exception wide open.
>
>The Note to Rule 1 of Character naming guidelines actually says:
>"Names of characters may also include digits .... if inclusion of
>the name of the coresponding digit(s) would be inappropriate."
>
>The "only to represent their shapes" is merely an example given in
>this Note. Clearly the use of code position numbers or catalogue
>numbers are other instances where the digits themselves are
>appropriate and their names would not be.
>
>So let's not worry unnecessarily about the Guidelines as they
>now stand at 2nd Edition of 10646-1.
>
>Regards - Bruce

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