L2/02-286


Date/Time:    Tue Aug  6 00:28:37 EDT 2002
Contact:      WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk
Report Type:  General question

I wonder if at the forthcoming meeting of the Unicode 
Technical Committee the possibility of changing the present 
policy of not encoding any more ligatures in the U+FB.. code 
block could please be discussed with a view to possibly 
changing the policy.

I feel that adding code points for some more ligature 
characters would be of benefit to people who do not have the 
most recent equipment.

I have produced some Private Use Area codings for some 
ligatures and although those codings are certainly usable I 
feel that it would be better if as many as possible of them 
were encoded as regular Unicode characters in the U+FB.. block.

Certainly, the Unicode standard could point out that any code 
points added in the U+FB.. block are intended as a secondary 
access route to the glyphs for the ligatures yet I feel that 
such encodings of ligatures would be useful for many end 
users for use in desktop publishing packages and so on.

My Private Use Area encodings are introduced and indexed from 
the following page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/golden.htm
 
William Overington
 
6 August 2002