On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org> wrote: >> I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a >> Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender >> pronoun. > > Unicode encodes scripts, not languages, so that's outside of its > scope. Even if you were to develop a new character that would function > as a neutral gender pronoun in English or other languages, it would > still be attached to one (or several) language(s). You're of course > free to advocate its use in all existing languages with a written > standard, but that would take some time ;-) And even then, it would > leave out the vast majority of languages, those that are only spoken.
I don't see how this applies: there are plenty of characters provided by Unicode that can be used regardless of which language I am writing in.. such as the male/female symbols already mentioned. So in this case, it would be a symbol for the 'language of the internet', not simply for a single language. Some symbols are available regardless of the general language used, correct? Granted, I know next to nothing about font encodings, so I'll defer here to the knowledge of others. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
