WG2 had published a guideline to naming characters. Jony
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:09 PM > To: Unicode Mailing List > Cc: Peter Jacobi > Subject: Re: U+0BA3, U+0BA9 > > > Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi at gmx dot net> wrote: > > > So, in effect the UNICODE character names attempt to be > > a unified transliteration scheme for all languages? Are these > > principles laid down somewhere or is this more informal? > > The Unicode character names attempt to be (a) unique and (b) > reasonably mnemonic. Anything beyond that is a bonus. They > expressly do *not* represent any form of transliteration or > transcription scheme. > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California > http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ > > > >
