Re: Awful Unicode character names (was Re: I-Ching Hexagrams)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 15:34:29 EDT

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At 11:34 -0700 2003-04-09, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>And in Unicode 1.0 it was called "SYMBOL OF IRAN", which was closer
>to your description of its use. It was WG2 that insisted on renaming
>it "FARSI SYMBOL" to get "IRAN" out of the name...

D'oh!

Fortunately I can breathe easily. I wasn't involved back then....

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