From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 20:24:43 EST
Peter Kirk said:
> According to the Roadmap, the Phonetic Extensions block can already be
> extended to cover 1D80-1DBF. I would suggest reserving this extension
> block for subscript letters, which gives space for upper and lower case
> subscript basic Latin alphabets and some extra characters.
Too late for that already. 1D80-1DBF is already chockablock with
phonetic symbols of far better claim to the space than subscript
letters. See:
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html
By the way, as an aside, whenever anyone on this list suggests
that such-and-such should go in such-and-such a place in Unicode,
it behooves you to check the book and then *also* check the
pipeline page. There are already nearly a couple of thousand
characters preliminarily encoded past the Unicode 4.0 repertoire,
so don't expect that any particular position open in Unicode 4.0
is available for encoding your favorite proposal.
> There is
> still a question of where subscript Greek letters might go; there is
> just space for a lower case Greek alphabet in the Greek and Coptic
> block, but this is not contiguous.
>
> Alternatively, let's leave all subscripting to markup.
Hear, hear!
--Ken
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