My last attempt to get through before PLONK.
"linuxa linux" <linuxalinux at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
"Unicode makes it possible to put tens of thousands of different
characters on a .....a plain-text document"
I refer to .txt files, are you also suggesting that you can put save a
.txt file on the computer that has unicode 0915 glyph shape?
No plain-text file, anywhere, in any language, in any character
encoding, specifies the glyph shape. That is outside the domain of
plain text.
This e-mail, which is written in plain text, does not specify anything
about the shapes of the letters, so even though I see it in Lucida Sans
Unicode, 10 point, you might see it rendered entirely differently. You
might see it in a serif font, or cursive, or in bold block capitals. If
you were blind, you might not see it at all; you might hear it read to
you by a screen reader.
If you want the letter between J and L to be represented with a specific
glyph, you have two choices:
1. Use U+004B or U+006B, the correct CHARACTER, but specify a
particular font that renders that character as if it were U+0915.
2. Use U+0915 directly, which destroys searching and sorting, but which
will usually be rendered the way you want (or as a box).
The right thing to do, before carrying on this crusade against Unicode,
would be to read and learn about the difference between "characters" and
"glyphs." See http://unicode.org/reports/tr17/#CharactersVsGlyphs. It
is much easier to criticize than learn, however, so I doubt you will do
this.
--
Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
http://www.ewellic.org
http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
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