Anbu <anbu at peoplestring dot com> wrote: > In one of the discussions in this community, it was stated that once > assigned, the name of a character cannot be changed. But I have > noticed some characters have their name changed eg 'ARABIC LETTER YEH > BARREE' (U+06D2) was previously named 'ARABIC LETTER YA BARREE'. Could > anyone please clarify me on this?
The rule against name changes has not always existed. Many character names were changed between Unicode 1.0 and 1.1. For example, U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE was called LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A GRAVE in Unicode 1.0. The rule was presumably introduced when it was discovered how disruptive name changes such as these had been to existing applications. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell
