John Cowan wrote: > > Blocks exist to keep things simple for allocators (i.e. UTC and WG2), and > not to allow end-users to make deductions about them; all such deductions > are quite illegitimate. (If this isn't actually written down anywhere, > it should be.)
Surely assigning a character to a block with other like-minded characters IS keeping things simple for allocators, and randomly assigning miscellaneous characters all other the place makes it as confusing to allocators as to end-users. Surely that's the whole point of having designated block names. It sounds to me that what you're suggesting is that characters should be allocated sequentially from U+0000 up, with no gaps. Would that not be the most simple solution for allocators !? After all, as long as the end-user sees the glyph that their expecting, they don't care what code point it's mapped to (indeed, as you imply, code points should be invisible to the end-user). Andrew C. West <http://uk.geocities.com/babelstone1357/>
