Re: name change

On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote:
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> Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than
> "Unicode Character Name" ?
> And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph.

These are "names" in the sense of an ID. That they are created by
deriving them from a description of the characters appearance in many
cases does not alter that fact.

A./
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> J.
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> On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote:
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>> On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, anbu_at_peoplestring.com
>> <mailto:anbu_at_peoplestring.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once
>>> assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed
>>> some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE'
>>> (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could anyone
>>> please clarify me on this?
>>
>> Unicode 1.0 was merged with an ISO draft into a joint character
>> encoding. In this process, different naming conventions got
>> rationalized, and some other changes were made to make this merged
>> standard possible.
>>
>> You will find that all policies that prevent certain changes have a
>> well-defined starting version. No changes are allowed for any new
>> version, but sometimes, certain changes were made in early versions.
>>
>> See: http://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
>>
>> For names, this document states:
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>> *Name Stability*
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>> /*Applicable Version: Unicode 2.0+*/
>>
>> The Unicode Name property value for any non-reserved code point
>> will not be changed. In particular, once a character is encoded,
>> its name will not be changed.
>>
>> As you can see, Unicode 1.0 names are explicitly not covered.
>>
>> A./
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Received on Tue Nov 22 2011 - 17:26:38 CST