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"Andrew C. West" wrote:
[re: proposed IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR]
>
> Given that there's going to be proposals for additional CJK symbols and
> punctuation marks in the future (if no-one else does I've got a few I'll
> propose), surely it would be better to simply create a "CJK Symbols and
> Punctuation B" block for the proposed IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR.
> It's irrelevant that the block will only have one charcacter to start with.
> It's got to be better than poluting other blocks with characters that just
> don't belong there.
There's an unassigned block right next to the other ideographic variation
selectors, at U+FE10..U+FE1F. *If* there are going to be variation selectors
for particular semantics, I would have thought that's the obvious place to
encode them.
However, it doesn't make much sense to me to suddenly change from encoding
variants using separate code points, to encoding them using variation
selectors. Arguably variation selectors would have been the better approach
if they had been used from the start (in particular, there would have been
no need for any of the compatibility ideographs). However, requiring
implementations to handle lots of separately encoded variant characters
*and* variation selectors, is the worst of both worlds IMHO.
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