On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:01:32PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > I think the only solution I've seen that can *work* for everybody, and > > doesn't have any showstoppers (that I can see), is your own suggestion > > of giving up and making backslash and yen two glyphs of U+005C. I can > > see a few problems with that, but they're all within the bounds of > > compromise. (And the bounds for this particular problem are very large ...) > > Do you mean the usage of Variation Selector? I think it is an > interesting suggestion and a good compromise. However, > (1) the problem that Windows CP932 text file cannot be > transcoded into Unicode automatically is not solved.
As you said, doing this is nearly impossible; no matter how you mark it, no solution can do this since you can't tell which a 0x5C is supposed to be reliably. > (2) I imagine Variation Selector is always needed for U+005C > as Yen Sign. I don't think Microsoft will accept this. I'm not sure there's anything they will ... > Note that the existance of problems doesn't mean the idea is bad, > because there cannot exist any ideas without problems. We have > to seek better compromise and smaller nightmare, not to seek > perfect solution which cannot exist. Yep; as I said, the problems with this aren't showstoppers. (Well, the "microsoft won't do it" may be, but that's likely for any such fixes ...) > > By the way, you might want to update the links on > > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html. While the nature > > of the problems you list is different, with Unicode obsoleting their own > > tables, it's still very useful information. > > Yes, I think the mapping tables are useful and Unicode Consortium > should not obsolete them unless defining a new authorized mapping > table, just as I wrote in the document. Yes, but they did obsolete them, which means your links to the tables are broken. I'm suggesting you update them, since the files are still available. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
