On 5/31/2012 3:13 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> 2012/5/31 Asmus Freytag<asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>:
>> On 5/30/2012 10:15 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
>>
>> A seemingly straightforward solution to the “unambiguous mapping” problem
>> would be to use the existing Plane 14 tag letters along with a new FLAG TAG,
>> say at U+E0002. Then<E0002, E0043, E0048> would unequivocally denote the
>> current Swiss flag. No need for separate lead and trail. Simple.
>>
>> ... What’s that? Oh, sorry, never mind. Deprecated.
>>
>>
>> Doug,
>>
>> you put your finger on it. Any form of combining scheme is doomed to fail.
>>
>> This includes the current approach of "Regional indicators".
> You're wrong. The Régional indicators failed because they were encoded
> at the character level, so that their scope of effect was supposed to
> extended to arbitrary lengths of texts.
Why you call my position "wrong" when you agree with it, I don't know.
A./
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