Ar 09:57 -0800 2000-05-09, scr�obh Kenneth Whistler:
>There are no guarantees, but no one in the UTC or WG2 is competing to
>create a longer name. There are no specified length limits in the naming
>rules that WG2 follows, but the committee has watchdogs who try to keep
>the names shorter, when possible. Furthermore, since the longest existing
>names are compatibility Arabic ligatures, and since WG2 has vowed not to
>encode any more Arabic ligatures, we are unlikely to see longer names.
Unless we name Egyptian hieroglyphs in any other way but their catalogue
names. Compare:
ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF MAKSURA
ISOLATED FORM
with
EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC SIGN RECUMBANT CROCODILE WITH NORTHERN KINGDOM
HEADDRESS AND FLAGELLUM
:-)
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