Unicode philosophy - technical symbols

[Doug Ewell]

Additionally, emoji — for all my longstanding concerns about them — are very deliberately intended to appear alongside, and as an integral part of, plain text.

Egyptian hieroglyphs were very much a natural-language writing system, every bit as much as Latin or Greek letters are today. Frankly, I’m troubled that anyone would cite them as a precedent for encoding technical symbols.

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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode <unicode-bounces at corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Doug Ewell via Unicode
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:25
To: Piotr Karocki <pkar at ieee.org>; unicode at corp.unicode.org
Subject: RE: Unicode philosophy - technical symbols

Piotr Karocki wrote:

> We already adopted e.g. Symbols for Legacy Computing (1FB00-1FBFF), 
> Emoji, hieroglyphs; why not include all ISO 7000 and IEC 60417 
> symbols?