On 09/25/2002 04:04:40 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>Could you please say some more about what is going to be encoded in regular >Unicode and with which code points please? You can look at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html to see what's in the pipeline, but note that code points are not yet definite. There will be a beta period, beginning in January I believe. >In relation to your encoding these characters as Private Use Area >characters, I wonder if you could please say some more about this please, >both in relation to which code points you are intending to use Our choice of code points s relevant only for our users and those with whom we might interchange data. Once we have implementations, such info will be available either with those implementations or on our Web site for the benefit of those using those implementations. I don't see any reason to discuss this on this list. >and also as >to whether encoding a combining accent character or a combining double into >the Private Use Area could lead potentially to any problems over a rendering >system recognizing the character as being a combining character (please know >that I have no specific reason to think that it would, it is just a >possibility about which I wondered when considering various uses of the >Private Use Area). I can't comment about rendering systems in general: some may have issues that others do not have. - 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]>
