> * Does the existence of the legacy Adobe encoding Adobe-Japan1-6 shift the > balance? It has a SQUARE TB at CID+8306.
The code point suggests that it was already there as early as Adobe-Japan1-1 in 1993. The fact makes it seem certainly weird why it hasn't been included like its fellows nearby. Perhaps it could be used as a rationale that this character is erroneously missing. > * Should I also propose SQUARE PB up to SQUARE YB? At the very least SQUARE PB > in datacenter settings seems useful. It does not however imply that squared *B things have some general needs. The situation is very different than that of Reiwa. U+32FF wasn't added for commemorative purpose, but is a critical requirement of some legacy systems that hardcoded those squared eras as time control characters, lest they fall into a Y2019 problem without a new era symbol (that's why Unicode announced the code point far before the real era name came out). From what I heard, even the Japanese government hadn't recognized the problem in the first place but MS or somebody listened to their clients and choosed to encode it. So far I don't believe there's a real need because I don't know a case that KB, MB... are used outside representational purpose, but I may be wrong. 2019年9月27日(金) 14:17 Fred Brennan via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>: > > I'm sorry to write twice to the list but after some discussion on Twitter it > is certain I'm going to write a request. > > I only have two lingering questions. > > * Does the existence of the legacy Adobe encoding Adobe-Japan1-6 shift the > balance? It has a SQUARE TB at CID+8306. > > https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5078.Adobe-Japan1-6.pdf > > * Should I also propose SQUARE PB up to SQUARE YB? At the very least SQUARE PB > in datacenter settings seems useful. > > (I emailed Dr. Ken Lunde with these questions, but he's on vacation until the > next meeting of the UTC. Does anyone know how much time I have before the > agenda closes? When does the Script Ad Hoc meet next?) > > >
