Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is perhaps a tribute of some sort to the elegance of Unicode/10646 that
> people seem to want to use it to encode things that are so desperately far
> out of its scope.
That is, if I may say so, an excellent way of putting it.
For example, there is my research on communication through the language
barrier. The research is only at an early stage at the time of writing this
post, yet I am hoping that people will want to develop the ideas in the
research into becoming a practical, useful system that is widely used. The
research uses plane 0 Private Use Area codes for encoding items that are
probably outside of the present scope of what Unicode/10646 encodes. For a
developed system to become part of the information technology facilities that
are widely available to end users, I feel that unique plain text encodings as
if the items were Unicode/10646 characters will be needed.
At present, the research is using 176 plane 0 Private Use Area code points to
encode the items that have thus far been encoded.
A developed system could use many more code points, the number of code points
used enlarging as particular application areas of communication through the
language barrier are added to the system.
Here is a link to some items about the research in case readers are interested.
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=16264#p16264
William Overington
28 November 2012
