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Why can't unicode change the names of the glyphs?
by asddubs 5y ago
Why can't unicode change the names of the glyphs?
- Someone 5y agoFrom that page: “Because Unicode Standard is a character encoding standard and not the Universal Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Character Identity, the stability and uniqueness of published character names is far more important than the correctness of the name. The published character names are normative for the purposes of the Unicode standard and the large number of other IT standards that reference it. These standards require stable identifiers and character names must therefore be immutable — any change of character names is almost as disruptive of the standards as changing code points for characters would be. Accordingly, the Unicode Consortium has adopted the Name Stability Policy, preventing changes in character names. As a result, errors in character names cannot be corrected. Instead, important character name anomalies anomalies (SIC) are documented with annotations in the Unicode Character Code Charts.” Also because somebody, somewhere, might have used those names to look up Unicode code points. Part of each Unicode release is a file named “UnicodeData.txt” (https://unicode.org/Public/13.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt https://unicode.org/Public/13.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), so those strings are public information.
- jfk13 5y agoJust a note in passing: Unicode doesn't name glyphs; it names characters.