On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 20:39:07 -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: >On 06/07/2016 06:25 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:52:36 -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: >> >>> On 06/07/2016 02:48 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: >>>> I heard that someone was considering adopting ZWJ. They seemed to think >>>> that non-printables are not adoptable. But I was unable to find a clear >>>> list of criteria. The page that allows one to adopt said that it wasn't >>>> available, but that page really doesn't make it clear how one can test >>>> for this without actually doing the adoption. (Since it doesn't >>>> actually ask for your credit card number on the initial page, one can >>>> back out before the final commitment, but that's not a very friendly >>>> interface) >>>> >>> >>> After I wrote that, I found this that I previously overlooked >>> >>> "You can’t sponsor candidate characters (those not yet released in a >>> version of Unicode, such as the Emoji Candidates), nor certain >>> characters such as invisible ones." >>> >>> But why this rule. Why should someone be forbidden to adopt ZWJ? >> >> Likewise I seriously considered adopting NNBSP, that is very important >> as a layout control, e.g. in the fr-FR locale, and is almost always stable >> in the applications, as opposed to NBSP. Indeed neither do I see any >> reason not to be able to adopt these characters, the less as there *is* >> a visible representation, displaying their abbreviation in a box. >> >> However I was aware from the beginning that my desire was unconventional. >> At least it isnʼt the kind of ideal gift for your niece as referred to on >> http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html >> > > Actually, someone suggested to me, only partially tongue-in-cheek that > Unicode pitch to Sesame Street > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street) that they adopt some > letters, as the show often (used to anyway) say that this episode is > brought to you by the letters Q and x (different letters sponsored > different episodes). Or maybe the pitch could be to the uncles and > aunts, "Now you can be like Sesame Street, and sponsor a letter."
Sesame Street adopting all letters the episodes are brought by, would be great, as would be all children being brought a character as an anniversary gift at least once in their lives. I feel that this could be the way Unicode become ultimately part of everybodyʼs real world, and get a place in peopleʼs hearts. Iʼd like to tell the uncles and aunts not to stick with ASCII only—hoping that the young will then ask for a keyboard layout all their characters are on—and make it!
