Tom Gewecke wrote as follows.
My personal idea of an Orwellian nightmare would to have a committee of
vigilant freedom protectors evaluating the political and social
implications of encoding symbols and passing judgement on whether
particular characters should be encoded and what their names
William Overington scripsit:
This issue has arisen because of my concern that a particular symbol has
been labelled as HANDICAPPED SIGN. I hope that the name will be changed to
WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL.
If you are going to discriminate (invidiously) using a computerized
database, using H for
At 14:32 -0400 2003-06-26, John Cowan wrote:
If you are going to discriminate (invidiously) using a computerized
database, using H for Handicapped (or G for Gimp) will do just as well.
Are you going to complain about the various symbols of religion already
encoded on the same grounds?
I am
I am rather concerned about the Orwellian nightmare possibilities of this
and believe that vigilance is a necessary activity to protect freedom. Just
think, data about someone can be expressed with one character which can be
sent around the world to be stored in a database which is not necessarily
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