Re: Codes for codes for codes for... (RE: Chromatic font research)

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 12:42:07 EDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
To: "'Stefan Persson'" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se>; "'Sampo
Syreeni'" <decoy@iki.fi>; "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Codes for codes for codes for... (RE: Chromatic font research)

> Stefan Persson wrote:
> > From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
> > > Or 127 ASCII code points?
> > > Or ca. 9000 JIS code points?
> >
> > They are already encoded, aren't they?
>
> No, they aren't. Unicode encodes the same characters encoded by ASCII (at
> the same code points) and the same characters encoded by JIS (at different
> code points), but it does NOT(*) include the ASCII or JIS code points
> themselves. That would be like assigning a code to represent a code which
> represents a character.
>
> (*: Actually, 33 ASCII code points are encoded in range U+2400..U+2422, to
> allow visible symbols for ASCII control codes).

I see. How do I propose millions of Unicode code points for inclusion in the
stantard? ;-)

Stefan

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