Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:
> I was quite surprised when I noted that a "combining large X overlay" > was not included in the Combining Diacritical Marks block (which > contains mostely non-diacriticals, rather iconic symbols, BTW). > > We have enclosing diamond and circlr and square, we have an enclosing > slashed circle, and even an enclosing keycap... so why not an X > overlay? Any idea why doesn't it exists, any current projects > (missing also in the pipeline and roadmap, AFAICT), perhaps why is it > a bad idea...? Can you show why it would be a *good* idea? I can't think of any plain-text uses for a combining X overlay, though I can think of numerous purely iconic uses. The burden is on the proposer to show why a proposed character is necessary or would be useful. Saying "it seems like it should be there, because many similar combining-overlay characters are there" doesn't provide a persuasive case for X-overlay. > Can anyone just step forward and propose U+20E4 for a "combining large > X overlay" and call it a day? Well, U+20E4 is already assigned to COMBINING ENCLOSING UPWARD POINTING TRIANGLE. But besides that, you would need to fill out the proposal form -- not simply mention it on the list -- and most importantly, you would need to show what plain-text requirement would be fulfilled by adding this character. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
