> In fact the two characters are being encoded not in Plane 1, but in the Armenian block. > I happen to know that some Armenian font foundries are working on early implementations using the code positions there.
Do you mean their actual codes will be different from U+1F53E and U+1F53F, specified in M57.13? > Please do not get worried about "bias" in the international standard. These are just dingbats. I am not "worried", I am just trying to understand why keeping national attribution for a common-use character is so principal, while these symbols have specific meaning in more than one culture and the proposed name is not a well-known one. N3903, section 9.4: *Mr. Peter Constable: The nature of these symbols is that they are like Dingbats; the inclination would be not to include them in the Armenian block, but elsewhere like other common-use symbols.* *Mr. Michael Everson: As long as the name has Armenian it should be OK...* Why not to give it a culture-neutral way and define specific attributions via aliases? Best regards, Alex. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]>wrote: > I would not worry about this, Alex. > > One of the characters has been added in part for compatibility with an > existing Armenian Standard, and is named because of its use, with a > particular meaning ('eternity') in Armenia. This does not prevent anyone in > Georgia or anywhere else from using it as a decorative symbol (designating > the sun or anything else). > > In fact the two characters are being encoded not in Plane 1, but in the > Armenian block. I happen to know that some Armenian font foundries are > working on early implementations using the code positions there. > > > Since the symbols are widely used in different cultures (and nowadays > also!), their direct attribution to a certain nation in an international > standard will be extremely biassed. Do I understand right, that in this > case the proper solution will be a neutral name for both entries in the > Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and adding interpretations > specific to a certain nationality via aliases? > > Please do not get worried about "bias" in the international standard. > These are just dingbats. They're named for the source of their encoding (an > Armenian standard). You can use them for whatever you like, however, and > you don't have to worry about their names. > > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ > > > >
