Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

[Michael Everson]

At 10:34 -0700 2003-07-14, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 14/07/2003 09:04, Doug Ewell wrote:

* Michael Everson's and Roozbeh Pournader's provisional PUA assignments
for ARABIC PASHTO ZWARAKAY and AFGHANI SIGN, two legitimate characters
that cannot be represented in Unicode by any other means.
Why not, may I ask, as a newcomer to this list? Is there some 
technical reason, or a political one?
What do you mean? The ZWARAKAY is a new combining mark; the AFGHANI 
SIGN is a unique currency symbol. Neither is yet encoded. In the 
report, Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan, it is 
recommended to use a PUA character until such time as the encoding 
process has run its course.

I would not recommend using COMBINING MACRON for the ZWARAKAY, and I 
don't know what could be recommended for the AFGHANI SIGN that is 
already encoded, apart from writing out the word.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com