Re: Armenian Eternity Sign (proposal)

> In fact the two characters are being encoded not in Plane 1, but in the
Armenian block.
> I happen to know that some Armenian font foundries are working on early
implementations using the code positions there.

Do you mean their actual codes will be different from U+1F53E and U+1F53F,
specified in M57.13?
> Please do not get worried about "bias" in the international standard.
These are just dingbats.

I am not "worried", I am just trying to understand why keeping national
attribution for a common-use character is so principal, while these symbols
have specific meaning in more than one culture and the proposed name is not
a well-known one.

N3903, section 9.4:
*Mr. Peter Constable: The nature of these symbols is that they are like
Dingbats; the inclination would be not to include them in the Armenian
block, but elsewhere like other common-use symbols.*
*Mr. Michael Everson: As long as the name has Armenian it should be OK...*

Why not to give it a culture-neutral way and define specific attributions
via aliases?

Best regards,
Alex.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>wrote:

> I would not worry about this, Alex.
>
> One of the characters has been added in part for compatibility with an
> existing Armenian Standard, and is named because of its use, with a
> particular meaning ('eternity') in Armenia. This does not prevent anyone in
> Georgia or anywhere else from using it as a decorative symbol (designating
> the sun or anything else).
>
> In fact the two characters are being encoded not in Plane 1, but in the
> Armenian block. I happen to know that some Armenian font foundries are
> working on early implementations using the code positions there.
>
> > Since the symbols are widely used in different cultures (and nowadays
> also!), their direct attribution to a certain nation in an international
> standard will be extremely biassed. Do I understand right, that in this
> case the proper solution will be a neutral name for both entries in the
> Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and adding interpretations
> specific to a certain nationality via aliases?
>
> Please do not get worried about "bias" in the international standard.
> These are just dingbats. They're named for the source of their encoding (an
> Armenian standard). You can use them for whatever you like, however, and
> you don't have to worry about their names.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Jan 19 2012 - 08:25:16 CST