From: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD (pzi@ingerman.org)
Date: Sun Jul 26 2009 - 16:57:56 CDT
Assigned-as-of?
Peter Ingerman
karl williamson wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with an alias to propose to the UCT for the
> misleadingly named Age property. People tend to think from the name
> that Age=3.2 means that the code point dates to version 3.2, when in
> fact it means it dates to at least 3.2.
>
> There are a couple of things which make this hard. One is that the
> term "assigned" (and its antonym, "unassigned") has a somewhat
> different meaning here than usual, which is that permanent
> non-characters are considered assigned here, but not elsewhere. Thus,
> Age=Unassigned includes a different set of code points than
> General_Category=Unassigned, the difference being the non-characters.
> I think there should be a different term for the Age version. I think
> Age=None would be good.
>
> The other problem is that, say, the alias "Assigned_In=4.0" could mean
> either already there in 4.0, or 4.0 introduced it. A verb that is
> more passive would be better.
>
> I have some possibilities, but would like some more:
>
> In=2.1 or In_Version=3.0
> Known_To=5.1 or Known_In, Known_In_Version, Known_To_Version
>
> I've looked at thesauruses, and there are words like allotted,
> allocated, but again they're too active, and don't convey the
> non-characters; the best I think so far is In_Version.
>
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