From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 11:38:14 CST
Hello Vinod --
Regarding the PDFs here:
http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix/tech/shapingstd/
You should realize that the implementation of these "proxies" in the
codespace is not conformant to the Unicode Standard, and is bound to break.
The reserved codepoints you are using could be filled at any time with
other characters.
In fact, some of your "proxies" *HAVE* been filled with characters in
Unicode 5.0:
097D;DEVANAGARI LETTER GLOTTAL STOP;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
09CE;BENGALI LETTER KHANDA TA;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
0CF2;KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
And some others are already in the "pipeline" for post 5.0 addition:
0A51 GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT
0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND
0D73 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE QUARTER
0D74 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE HALF
You would do better to put your "proxies" in the private use area.
There is a lot of active work in Indic script additions these days, so I
would expect more of the reserved codepoints to be filled with characters
as we move forward.
Rick
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