From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 07:00:49 EST
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 05:29:51 -0000, "C J Fynn" wrote:
>
> U+0F09 which was erroneously named BKA-SHOG YIG MGO (should have been ZHU-YIG
> GO RGYAN), is used for writing respectfully to a senior particularly when
> requesting something. e.g when writing to a government officer or minister
> requesting a licence or permit, when petitioning the court and so on.
And to make matters worse BKA- SHOG YIG MGO [U+0F0A] is actually the term for
the "starting flourish for giving a command", and should thus be the name of the
character proposed at U+0FD0, except that U+0FD0 now has to make do with a
subtly different name as its proper name has already been appropriated by the
character with the opposite meaning ... definitely one for the Unicode Book of
Bloopers !
Incidentally, shouldn't the proposed name for U+0FD0 be "TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG
GI MGO RGYAN" (BKA- + space) not "TIBETAN MARK BSKA-SHOG GI MGO RGYAN" (BSKA- +
no space) ?
Andrew
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