New version, draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-02.txt, available

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Jun 20 10:12:40 CEST 2007


At 10:01 +0200 2007-06-20, Patrik Fältström wrote:

>>>Is what you say the only way of getting the 
>>>proper derived value to add such a rule?
>>
>>Why should this be troublesome?
>
>Because it will be harder to move forward to 
>future versions of Unicode if the property value 
>have to be decided based on inspections of 
>individual codepoints instead of "just" a 
>derived value based on other things one have 
>already defined.

Harder in what way?

I don't think you can get away with updating 
without human intervention, discussion, and 
decision. The writing systems of the world are 
not tidy.

If you take this notion on board and embrace it, 
I think you will be more comfortable about 
updating to future versions of Unicode.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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