We wanted to be a bit conservative regarding those characters, partly because we are using a payment service that is fussy. We could test it out again — but our first priority is getting U9.0 out the door!
Mark On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Karl Williamson <[email protected]> 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? > >
