Re: Tags and future new technologies (from RE: Flag tags (was: Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign))

From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:59:01 -0700

On 6/1/2012 12:01 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> 2012/6/1 Asmus Freytag<asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>:
>> The chances that any form of meta encoding for symbols (including ligation)
>> will ever reach critical mass in support is less than for
>> Latin/Greek/Cyrillic accents, because - as of today - there's no established
>> use for any of these schemes.
>>
>> All of these things remain solutions in search of a problem.
> No, my poposal gives something that is immediately usable, and does
> not create any ambiguity. It is simple to implement even without the
> presence of a technical ligaturing solution.

It's still a solution in search of a problem.

There's no demand out there for this feature.

A./
Received on Fri Jun 01 2012 - 15:01:21 CDT

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