Hello Naz, Thank you for discussing your proposal on the unicode list. Not all experts monitor that list. That said, feel free to submit a proposal to "[email protected]".
Look forward to seeing your proposal. Lisa From: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/06/2015 08:50 PM Subject: Re: Proposals for Arabic honorifics Sent by: "Unicode" <[email protected]> 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.
