Asmus Freytag replied to Jeremie Hornus:
Wouldn't be "Unicode Character Glyph Description" more accurate than
"Unicode Character Name" ?
And just "Unicode Character Description" for those pointing to no
glyph.
These are "names" in the sense of an ID. That they are created by
deriving them from a description of the characters appearance in many
cases does not alter that fact.
And there are many cases where "Glyph Description" would be very
misleading. Neither "LATIN SMALL LETTER A" nor "LATIN SMALL LETTER G"
specifies one common glyph variant or the other for those letters, and
"MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR" is in no way a description of a glyph.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14
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