Adding characters with decompositions (was Re: Private Use proposals)

From: David Hopwood (david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 17:02:29 EDT


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Doug Ewell wrote:
> [...] Beyond a certain point in time (defined as Unicode 3.1), no new
> canonical or compatibility equivalences can be defined.

Huh? What about the compatibility ideographs U+FA30..FA6A, added in 3.2?
Or U+2047 DOUBLE QUESTION MARK, also added in 3.2?

A correct statement of the policy is that no newly assigned character can
*canonically* decompose to *two characters* unless it is added to the
composition exclusion list.

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