On 8/26/2011 7:52 PM, Benjamin M Scarborough wrote:
Are name aliases exempted from the normal character naming conventions? I ask
because four of the entries have words that begin with numbers.
008E;SINGLE-SHIFT 2;control
008F;SINGLE-SHIFT 3;control
0091;PRIVATE USE 1;control
0092;PRIVATE USE 2;control
This is a good point.
While the restriction is silly, the character name matching rules
disregard both hyphens and spaces.
Under the rules, the following strings are all equivalent
SINGLE-SHIFT1
SINGLE-SHIFT 1
SINGLE-SHIFT-1
SINGLE SHIFT 1
SINGLE SHIFT-1
(as would the dozens of permutations that introduced hyphens / spaces at
other positions)
Given those matching rules, if the formal alias were to be
SINGLE-SHIFT-1
any programming environment could still recognize the name SINGLE-SHIFT
1 as underneath, all would match to
SINGLESHIFT1
Perhaps the formal aliases should be corrected in the draft file to
simply follow the established naming conventions, without introducing
yet another level of exception.
A./
