2012/5/31 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > Philippe Verdy wrote: > >> So to represent the flag of Japan, you could encode: >> >> FLAG INITIAL SYMBOL J >> FLAG FINAL SYMBOL P >> [...] > > For me, the existing Plane 14 mechanism would have worked just as well, > without requiring three more duplicate sets of printable Basic Latin.
You can perfectly map this small set of symbols in Plane 14. And no, they are NOT confusable and not a duplicate set of Basic Latin : their representative glyphs will be clearly different. They will be REAL symbols, even if they embed a letter in their default representative glyph (this letter will disappear when the ligatures will be generated by renderers supporting a mapping from flag codes to actual glyphs, either with fonts build specifically for some recognized ligatured, or with the help of an external protocol to get a flag from an external flags registry (which we don't need to specify in Unicode).
