+1 (although some people object to this notation) Sincerely, Erkki
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Doug Ewell Lähetetty: 26. heinäkuuta 2014 18:26 Vastaanottaja: [email protected] Kopio: [email protected] Aihe: Re: Request for Information fantasai <fantasai dot lists at inkedblade dot net> wrote: > I think when you have no further context, it is better to have > a guess informed by the character properties than one completely > ignorant of them. Some of the responses on this list already demonstrate a real risk of Unicode adding a property like this. When Unicode publishes this sort of data, even if it is meant to be informative, people tend to treat it as normative and rigid, and applying to all imaginable scenarios. So even for a script like Latin, where the customary method of justification is usually straightforward, you can have reasonable counterexamples like Fraktur as described by Asmus. And then someone might bring up a case where the rules might be different for different languages (Philippe sort of alluded to this with Arabic). And then there will be a historic example from the dawn of printing, and one from a highly styled advertising sign, and so forth, and it will be hard to tell when the "normal usage" line has been crossed. If necessary, someone will trudge out Latin letters on a neon sign, oriented normally but written vertically down the sign. Meanwhile Unicode will be criticized for not taking all the special cases into account. It's a bit like the locale collections (CLDR is not alone here) that specify a single date format for an entire country, as if all Americans only ever write a short date as "m/dd/yy" and anyone who uses a different format is employing some sort of weird hybrid system. The presence of "m/dd/yy" in the locale collection appears normative and rigid, and is often implemented in software as though that were the intent, even if the data is meant to be descriptive and a first approximation. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
