If there are no comments on this specific issue, could someone care to
comment on the idea of writing a proposal that extends and existing
proposal? Is this considered bad form, or is it OK so long as it doesn't
unnecessarily raise conflicting proposals?
- Naz.
On 5/10/2015 6:39 PM, Naz Gassiep wrote:
Hi all,
We are considering writing a proposal for Arabic honorifics which are
missing from Unicode. There are already a few in there, notably U+FDFA
and U+FDFB.
There are two existing proposals, L2/14-147 and L2/14-152, which each
propose additions. L2/14-147 proposes seventeen new characters and
L2/14-152 proposes a further two.
There are a few other characters that are not included in these
proposals, and I was considering preparing a proposal of my own. I
will work with a team of people who are willing to contribute time to
this work. We are considering two options:
1. Prepare an additional proposal for the characters that were missing
from the existing spec and also from the two proposals mentioned above.
2. Prepare a collating proposal which rolls the two proposals as well
as the others that we feel are missing into a single proposal.
Currently, we favour the second option. We would ensure that full
descriptions, names, character properties, and detailed examples are
provided for each character to substantiate its use in modern plain
text. We would also suggest code points in line with the existing
proposal L2/14-147.
We don't want to step on the toes of the original submitters, Roozbeh
Pournader or Lateef Sagar Shaikh. We wish to be clear that we will
draw on their existing proposals to the maximum extent possible to
ensure that we do not submit a conflicting proposal, but a superset
proposal that incorporates their proposals as well as the additional
characters we have identified. We have evaluated these two, and a true
superset proposal is possible such that no conflicts between either
those two proposals or our own will materialize.
Are there any issues that we may face in preparing and submitting our
proposal?
Any guidance from this mailing list would be highly valued.
Many thanks,
- Naz.
