Peter, I agree with your amendment to my comments. Certainly it shouldn't disqualify a character with distinguishing semantics from being encoded in Unicode, just because it happens to be depicted as a superscript...
tex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 08/10/2002 05:42:04 PM Tex Texin wrote: > > >2) Superscript, subscript, combining above, and other forms of > >identifying placement of characters, are better left to markup or other > >rendering systems and file formats (and not for a vehicle intended for > >plain text.) > > I will partially disagree with Tex. It's true as a general rule that such > things should be handled by markup or rich text, for general documents, but > I think there are special application areas in which I think it is correct > to encode superscripted, subscripted or combining letters. One example is > phonetic transcription, in which phonetic symbols can be superscripted with > particular semantics. Digitising of manuscripts for paleographic research > can be another appropriate application for this. > > But, I completely agree with his comments about the PUA. If there is a need > for > > >a facility to > >document transcribers all around the world > > then PUA makes sense if those transcribers spread around the world involve > a handful of people working with some experimental encoding because it has > not yet been worked out how all the details of the documents should be > encoded, hence it's too early for a proposal, or the documents in question > are not currently real candidates for incorporation into the standard (e.g. > Phaistos), or they are insisting on encoding in some way that is counter to > what experts has already agreed should be the preferred encoding for the > characters in question. > > In general, interchange between document transcribers all around the world > should be done the same way that interchange of digital texts should always > be done: using an international character set encoding standard, preferably > Unicode. If it's really worth interchanging, it's worth adding to Unicode. > The Unicode coded character set continues to be an open set precisely > because there are still characters worthy of interchange that are not yet > part of the standard. > > - 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]> -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
