Unicode philosophy - technical symbols

[Doug Ewell]

Piotr Karocki wrote:

> Ad first.
> ISO 7000 is not freely available, but Unicode also is ISO/IEC standard
> 10646, for 208 CHF (it is not exact equivalent, but neverless...).
> https://www.iso.org/standard/76835.html

Try searching for “10646” here:
https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

> Ad second.
> Many of these symbols appear in text - e.g. clothing labels,
> instructions/user guides for technical equipment, cargo manifests,
> etc.
> Probably not all symbols, of course, but it seems that including
> all symbols is much easier than making selection of symbols to be
> included :)

The encoding process is not necessarily oriented toward simplifying the job of the proposer. (Not to suggest it is oriented toward complicating their job, either.)

If you want to propose these symbols, and you think you can persuade the committees, go ahead and propose them. But please do not cite Legacy Computing Symbols or Egyptian hieroglyphs as if they were analogous. They are not.

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