This is especially in reference to those hex digits. Here is what i have to say about the matter:
To discourage frivolous character proposals, the Unicode Consortium requires you to come up with these (I am not sure if this is all the requirements, there might be more): 1. You gotta fill out a form. Probably not that hard, except that some ISO standards are referenced, and you might have some research work to do to find out just what these standards are. If you don't know where to access these documents, you're stuck. 2. You gotta have a font including the proposed characters. I do not know what type of font, but No Font = No Complete Proposal. 3. You gotta give them instances of the characters in actual use. I think you have to send them something to prove this, I'm not sure what. SO... If you are the only guy who uses these hex digits, and you don't have a font containing the digits, you basically have less chance proposing these characters to Unicode than proposing marriage to Anna Kournikova. However, if you find some previously undiscovered (and illiterate) jungle tribe, and they count in base 16, and you introduce literacy to the tribe, and give them YOUR digits, and if they ACCEPT and USE your digits, then it's pretty safe to say they're in. But you still need that font. Weird. I am told that it is good that we have non-literals for digits so we can do higher math, that without them higher math would be all but impossible, and now we have come full circle to using letters for digits!! If Thinkit wants to see something interesting, he should see how numbers are expressed in Braille. And the real reason I did not propose those two digits to Unicode was that I did not know how much WORK it would be. Sheesh, where CAN you get the relevant ISO documents anyway? _________________________________________________________________ デジカメで撮った写真も自由自在に編集 MSN フォト アルバム http://photos.msn.co.jp/
