Peter,
I agree with your amendment to my comments. Certainly it shouldn't
disqualify a character with distinguishing semantics from being encoded
in Unicode, just because it happens to be depicted as a superscript...
tex
Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>
> On 08/10/2002 05:42:04 PM Tex Texin wrote:
>
> >2) Superscript, subscript, combining above, and other forms of
> >identifying placement of characters, are better left to markup or other
> >rendering systems and file formats (and not for a vehicle intended for
> >plain text.)
>
> I will partially disagree with Tex. It's true as a general rule that such
> things should be handled by markup or rich text, for general documents, but
> I think there are special application areas in which I think it is correct
> to encode superscripted, subscripted or combining letters. One example is
> phonetic transcription, in which phonetic symbols can be superscripted with
> particular semantics. Digitising of manuscripts for paleographic research
> can be another appropriate application for this.
>
> But, I completely agree with his comments about the PUA. If there is a need
> for
>
> >a facility to
> >document transcribers all around the world
>
> then PUA makes sense if those transcribers spread around the world involve
> a handful of people working with some experimental encoding because it has
> not yet been worked out how all the details of the documents should be
> encoded, hence it's too early for a proposal, or the documents in question
> are not currently real candidates for incorporation into the standard (e.g.
> Phaistos), or they are insisting on encoding in some way that is counter to
> what experts has already agreed should be the preferred encoding for the
> characters in question.
>
> In general, interchange between document transcribers all around the world
> should be done the same way that interchange of digital texts should always
> be done: using an international character set encoding standard, preferably
> Unicode. If it's really worth interchanging, it's worth adding to Unicode.
> The Unicode coded character set continues to be an open set precisely
> because there are still characters worthy of interchange that are not yet
> part of the standard.
>
> - Peter
>
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