Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than "Unicode Character Name" ? And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no glyph.
J. On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:35, Asmus Freytag wrote: > On 11/22/2011 11:02 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> 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? > > Unicode 1.0 was merged with an ISO draft into a joint character encoding. In > this process, different naming conventions got rationalized, and some other > changes were made to make this merged standard possible. > > You will find that all policies that prevent certain changes have a > well-defined starting version. No changes are allowed for any new version, > but sometimes, certain changes were made in early versions. > > See: http://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html > > For names, this document states: > > Name Stability > Applicable Version: Unicode 2.0+ > > The Unicode Name property value for any non-reserved code point will not be > changed. In particular, once a character is encoded, its name will not be > changed. > > As you can see, Unicode 1.0 names are explicitly not covered. > > A./
