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.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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