On 06/25/2002 11:17:52 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Use of the Private Use Area is never questionable, as far as it remains >*private*. I think this might be overreacting -- or at least it can seem to be so. In principle, there's nothing wrong with William creating a character to experiment with, nothing wrong with assigning a PUA codepoint for that character, and nothing wrong with publicly documenting that. William, I think some people on this list are just a little exhausted on Overingtonian discussions of the PUA. I may be wrong, but I suspect that that's really what Marco is reacting to. You might want to limit comments in that regard a bit. You said, >Also, as a contribution to the research discussion, I wonder if I may >suggest the following test item. > >U+E7C2 HOLLY LEAF (GREEN) SURROUNDED BY FIVE BERRIES (RED) Your definition of the character for your purposes is valid in and of itself, but it's not centrally important to the discussion (Marco has identified other candidates that can be used for experimentation), and is probably a tender spot with some people. In particular, the wording suggests you're offering this character to the rest of the list, which is reminiscent of ideas of standardised PUA allocations, to which most are very opposed. Thus, others might appreciate it if a comment in this vein were limited to something like, "For my experimentation, I'm defining a PUA character HOLLY LEAF (GREEN) SURROUNDED BY FIVE BERRIES (RED), which I'll document on my web site in case it's of interest to anyone else.' BTW, while I think your character is perfectly fine for you to experiment with (and has a fun aspect to it), I am quite concerned at your choice of name: it suggests that it might be reasonable for someone to encode characters with specific chromatic attributes. I definitely think this would be inappropriate for a character set encoding standard. >> [... I am hopeful that chromatic font technology >> has now reached a gel level [...] > >As far as I know, chromatic font technology does *not* exist yet and there >is no big need for it. I had the same thoughts. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
