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What happens if you want to use two different extended text code points in one blog post? How would they interact? How do they avoid assigning the same codepo
by Tyr42 10y ago
What happens if you want to use two different extended text code points in one blog post? How would they interact? How do they avoid assigning the same codepoint to different symbols.
How would browsers support this? What's the actual plan, not just a handwave? Do you think it'd be more efficient to have to support 6 different standards than one?
- pron 10y ago> What happens if you want to use two different extended text code points in one blog post? There are no codepoints if it's not text. How do you use codepoints for embedding a video or a picture on your blog? You don't! But, if you want to treat something as if it were text, then I suggested doing something similar to an XML namespace: "the next segment is hieroglyphics, you can get their glyphs from here, and these are their indices...". That "extended text" is still not text, and it still doesn't use any Unicode codepoints, but it can work according to similar principles. > Do you think it'd be more efficient to have to support 6 different standards than one? Then why don't we let the Unicode Consortium take over standardizing video or audio? If something isn't text, why is it standardized by a text standardization body?