On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 1:21:18 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Steve D'Aprano > <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> [...] So, for instance, Eryk Sun commented that my rounded > box example didn't render correctly in all fonts - but in > the future, a new version of those fonts could be released, > adding support for those characters. We *know* that the > code points I used are permanently and irrevocably > allocated to the purposes I used them for, so we can all be > confident that they'll be used correctly if at all. You place a lot of faith in the supposed "immutability of Unicode code points", but a lot people have placed a lot of faith in many past and current encoding systems, only to be bamboozled by the gatekeepers some time later. > > That's not quite right. Unicode includes 137000 or so > > Private Use Characters, which anyone can define for their > > own purposes, "by private agreement". There's an > > unofficial registry of such private use characters here: And so, although Unicode was created to solve the endless compatibility problems between multiple archaic encoding systems, the designers thought it necessary to add a "custom space" that will keep the incompatibilities on life support. Smart. *REALLY* smart. And people _wonder_ why Dylan was a disgruntled laureate... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
