Re: What should or should not be encoded in Unicode? (from Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop)

2020-02-15 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Joel Kalvesmaki asks nine questions, six in the first block and three in the second block. Numbering from 1 through to 9 in the order that they are asked, I do not, at present understand the question for many of them and I can, at present, only answer question 7 definitively. Some questions

Re: What should or should not be encoded in Unicode? (from Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop)

2020-02-15 Thread via Unicode
Hi William, I don't fully understand your proposed encoding scheme (e.g., Is there a namespace each encoding scheme is bound to? How do namespaces get encoded? How are syntax strictures encoded?), but even then, presuming it's sound, you've said in the message before that this encoding space

Re: What should or should not be encoded in Unicode? (from Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop)

2020-02-14 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
The solution is to invent my own encoding space. This sits on top of Unicode, could be (perhaps?) called markup, but it works! It may be perilous, because some software may enforce the strict official code point limits. I have now realized that what I wrote before is ambiguous. When I

Re: What should or should not be encoded in Unicode? (from Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop)

2020-02-14 Thread Hans Ã…berg via Unicode
> On 13 Feb 2020, at 16:41, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode > wrote: > > Yet a Private Use Area encoding at a particular code point is not unique. > Thus, except with care amongst people who are aware of the particular > encoding, there is no interoperability, such as with regular