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Unicode basic rule is that character definitions never ever change, even when enumerated erroneously.
by baybal2 4y ago
Unicode basic rule is that character definitions never ever change, even when enumerated erroneously.
- Arnt 4y agoYes, but this is a change either way, because that codepoint's definition referred to that character. Either the reference or the description of the appearance has to change.
- echelon 4y agoꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ Make a new character. Updating the existing character ruins the meaning of all previous usages. It's like trying to change an API. Don't disrespect your existing users. Make a new version. (ꙮ ͜ʖꙮ) Think of all the ASCII art this botches. That has to have some historical importance to the Unicode standards body. (⌐ꙮ_ꙮ) For scholarly digital (unprinted) documents where the correct character rendering matters, erroneous past usages can be trivially found with grep, a date search, and easily corrected. The domain experts will familiarize themselves with this issue and fix the problem. Don't take a shotgun to it! This message wꙮn't have the ꙮriginally intended meaning if the characters are updated from underneath. ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ ꙮ