What's the process for proposing a symbol in the Unicode table?

[William_J_G Overington]

I wonder if the encoding rules are no longer fit for purpose.
 
The encoding process should be to be helpful to consumers, not to lead 
to an agreement to restrict progress.
 
I get the impression - and if I have got it wrong please correct me - 
that if one were using the krul character in a desktop publishing 
program that the likely scenario is that there is a large rectangular 
text frame filling most of the page and containing text in the Dutch 
language, in, say, 14 point, and there is in the right margin, near the 
lower edge of the page, a small rectangular text frame into which the 
krul character is inserted, quite possibly at a larger size than the 
other text, at, say, 36 point or 48 point.
 
Thus the krul character is not within a line of running text involving 
other characters as well as itself.
 
I say that the fact that the krul character is not within a line of 
running text involving other characters as well as itself should not go 
against the encoding of the krul character as a regular Unicode 
character.
 
This is because, in practice an end user is likely to want to introduce 
the krul character from a font. So encoding the krul character in 
regular Unicode would be helpful to end users and in my opinion being 
helpful to end users and consumers is what is important in encoding 
decisions.
 
William Overington
 
Monday 19 February 2024
 
 
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