Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?

[Giacomo Catenazzi]

On 2024-08-15 5:48, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> No proposal to encode any number of characters, one or a thousand, 
> ever benefits from the argument that “there is plenty of space in 
> Unicode.” Every proposal is accepted or rejected on its own merits. 
> And that is as it should be.

But I would also add: each character has huge cost which should be 
carried with to the final version of Unicode.

A character is nor just like a possibly nearly hidden page of Wikipedia 
with low cost (just database space/backups): every program must scan the 
list (so it must be saved in the system, and possibly many programs have 
own list, e.g. a browser may support more recent database compared other 
programs). So each phone must have at lease one copy, so also each 
computer and virtual machine. But also it add complexity to read the 
database.

But also on font side. A character without a representation is not very 
useful (but for scholars, so ancient language may be ok). And that has a 
huge costs, also just to select what to model and what not.


On 2024-08-14 21:53, ag disroot via Unicode wrote:
> Characters like the box drawing characters would never be accepted these
>   days. As in if it wouldn't be in unicode already and if old standards
> wouldntve added it, it would never be accepted bc it graphic by nature
> and you should use a higher level protocol for that

Not just that, but (again fonts): many fonts (I think also some default 
one) which support the technical block of Unicode are not much useable. 
Alignment is not where it should, etc. For me that proof that such block 
is not really used, and so nobody care (but just to have a glyph).


And I would re-iterate: Unicode should requires a font for each new 
glyphs (and with a "free license", so it could be easier to derive 
characters). Not only it can show that people will invest on such 
character, but as I see in some discussion: I think it will reduce bugs 
in the Unicode Character Database (real example helps experts of the 
character to find bugs on character property).


giacomo
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