Re: name change

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Hanna
On 2011-11-23 10:38, Jeremie Hornus wrote: I was thinking the ID being the code point value itself, and the name a human readable description of it. They are both IDs. One is from the range of numbers from 0 to 1114111 (10 base 16), the other is from the range of strings of characters

Re: name change

2011-11-23 Thread Jeremie Hornus
On 23 Nov 2011, at 00:21, Asmus Freytag wrote: On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. These are names in the sense

Re: name change

2011-11-23 Thread Jeremie Hornus
On 23 Nov 2011, at 02:25, Doug Ewell wrote: Asmus Freytag replied to Jeremie Hornus: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. These are names in the sense of an ID.

Re: name change

2011-11-23 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 11/23/2011 2:38 AM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: On 23 Nov 2011, at 00:21, Asmus Freytag wrote: On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to

name change

2011-11-22 Thread anbu
Hi! In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could anyone please

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-11-22 21:02, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC

RE: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Anbu anbu at peoplestring dot com wrote: In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Ken Whistler
'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could anyone please clarify me on this? Sure. The name change you are talking about occurred between Unicode 1.0 and Unicode 1.1 (in 1993, 18 years ago). There were *lots* of name changes between 1.0 and 1.1 -- that was the result of the merger of the Unicode 1.0 contents

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Jeremie Hornus
Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. J. On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote: On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: Hi! In one of the

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 11/22/2011 1:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. These are names in the sense of an ID. That they are created by deriving them from

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 11/22/2011 04:22 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. Unicode doesn't encode glyphs, it encodes characters. ~mark

Re: name change

2011-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Asmus Freytag replied to Jeremie Hornus: Wouldn't be Unicode Character Glyph Description more accurate than Unicode Character Name ? And just Unicode Character Description for those pointing to no glyph. These are names in the sense of an ID. That they are created by deriving them from a