From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 06:10:21 CST
Glancing briefly at the many local names of the "@" symbol, it
suggests that Unicode should supply such localized descriptions.
Somebody remarked that the Mac OS X properly admits one choosing a
preference sequence of localizations. So, in addition to the
character name, which usually is in English, only using the
(meta-)characters A-Z and " ", one can have additional descriptions,
expressed in files say using UTF-8. The character name will of course
be important to uniquely identify the character, internationally, and
in the computer, whereas the local, informal descriptions will better
used in a localized computer environment. A Unicode palette should be
encouraged to provide the character name, and then possibly in
addition, local descriptions. If Unicode provides the right files,
computer software can choose these local names automatically, when
available. The character name has an advantage over the local
descriptions, in that it is guaranteed to always exist.
-- Hans Aberg
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