Greetings to all standartisers!
I'm new here so forgive me my stupidness.
I just have one little question to which I didn't found the answer in the whole homepage:
What is the standard of the characters names?
You are looking for the character naming guidelines
You will find them as part of the instructions on submitting character prosposals.
If you are trying to parse the Nameslist.txt file, look at the file format syntax
in Nameslist.html which describes name format as well.
What I mean is: For example, the character A has the name "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A". So I guess for a name, there can only be used the 26 capital letters of the latin alphapet plus space. But that's just my guess. Are there any other characters allowed (maybe some brackets or points, commata? digits?).
Aha, right now, I found a char that uses the minus plus some digits: "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-298C6"
For the formal names:
A-Z, SPACE, HYPHEN and 0-9
In 10646 names can be followed by a comment, consisting of
a space followed by text inside ( ) optionally followed by a space and a *
or
a space followed by a *
Thanks in advance for your help, even if it's just a link which guides me to the standartisation (maybe an RFC?).
Finally, except for one pair of names involving O-E vs OE, all names are unique if you remove
spaces and all *medial* hyphens, but not the hyphen in names that have XXXX -A etc. where space
and hyphen are adjacent.
When it comes to creating new names, there are more rules having to do with what words are used to make up a name. But that's mostly a tool for the editors to attempt some consistency in naming (not that they've been at all that succesful...;-)
proud to be a newby! :)
Good luck!
A./
