<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; direction: ltr; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Doug Ewell wrote as follows.</font></span></div><p><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; direction: ltr; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></span></p><p><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; direction: ltr; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif">> It would be great if we could converge on a solution for this that would align with the guidance of UTC and Script Ad Hoc.</font></span></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Well, it would. However, in my opinion that is not the best solution available and I hope that my proposed plane 14 solution will be considered please.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">I have been thinking of how best to proceed and, as an encoding decision is unlikely to be made until at least the next meeting of the Unicode Technical Committee, there is the opportunity to give serious consideration to the matter and then any opinions formed can be put forward to the Unicode Technical Committee at that time.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">I suggest that a way to do this is to have a plane 15 Private Use Area encoding available for experimentation. If people interested all use the same Private Use Area encoding that would possibly give as good experience as possible without a formal regular Unicode encoding.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">I suggest that to start off that all thirty-two teletext control codes of the 1976 broadcast teletext specification are encoded, in the order that they appear in the 1976 broadcast teletext specification, from U+F7000 through to U+F701F.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">The character names along the following pattern.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">TELETEXT INFORMAL ARCHIVING ALPHANUMERICS GREEN</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">This all thirty-two would have a name starting with TELETEXT INFORMAL ARCHIVING</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">I appreciate that only twenty-seven were used in teletext broadcasts, yet for completeness I suggest encoding all thirty-two.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">For the displayable glyphs, each would be two capital letters one above the other upon a pale. For the avoidance of doubt they are not superimposed one over the other. For example, for</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">TELETEXT INFORMAL ARCHIVING ALPHANUMERICS GREEN</font></p><p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">the displayable glyph would be an A above a G upon a pale.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Where the original name has two words the first letter of each of the two words used, where the original name has only one word the first two letters of the word used.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Here is a link to the display of the code names. There is a facility to zoom-in on the display..</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">https://archive.org/details/broadcast_teletext_specification_1976/page/n25/mode/2up</font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">William Overington</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Friday 16 October 2020</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><br></p></div></body></html>