Michael Everson wrote:
On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:00, Bill Poser wrote:

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:

Digits can be scattered randomly about the code space and it wouldn't make any 
difference.
Having written a library for performing conversions between Unicode strings and 
numbers, I disagree.

You can, but in principle it remains true.

It may well be that adopting such a policy is not realistic, but there would be 
advantages to it if were.

The current policy does not always have ones at one or eights at eight, and for 
practical reasons, it would be foolish to try to adopt a policy at odds with 
common sense and practical code-position assignment.


the proposal did not ask for ones at one or eights at eight. It asked for contiguity. Why is this ad odds with common sense and practical code-position assignment?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/





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