It seems to me the proposal would present a stronger case if samples were available that were something *other* than an explanation of the symbol in a dictionary, encyclopaedia, or other reference. It would be similar to these kinds of samples if I were to create a proposal using as a sample the Phonetic Symbol Guide, but that might not clearly show if a character was something that was merely proposed by someone at one time but never actually used -- in such a case, taking a sample from Phonetic Symbol Guide does not really demonstrate the need to encode as a character for text representation. Likewise, the sample for (e.g.) the fleur-de-lis doesn't really provide a case that this should be a character to facilitate representation in text. It wouldn't be hard to provide a comparable descriptive paragraph that began with an image of the Stars and Stripes, but I don't think we'd want to encode the US flag as a character.
I'm not saying that I oppose the proposed characters; just that samples of a different nature would make for a stronger case. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
