From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 11:27:15 CST
Hans Aberg <haberg at math dot su dot se> wrote:
> With policy of unique character names in hand, I see a scheme like
> follows: Unicode has a site, where private characters are registered
> by name. Registration may require some additional information, like
> providing rendering glyphs in a common, public format, for public
> use....
Ask William Overington how receptive Unicode is to this idea.
> In any case, a private character number, once used for
> something, should never be used for anything new, in order to avoid
> confusion.
You'd be amazed how quickly 137,000 code points would fill up, as every
high school kid who's ever invented an alphabet rushes to "register" it
with Unicode:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts.htm
http://www.langmaker.com/neographies.htm
Not to mention the fact that the PUA would no longer be available for
"real" private use.
No, I'm afraid this is not going to happen.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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