Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

For me the encoded IDC are not different
from symbols, or

from mathematical operators.

So trying to display an IDS differently would be exactly the same kind
of

process as transforming, when rendering, the mathematical operation

"a*(x+y)" into "a*x+a*y".

Here's another way to look at this:

IDSs are a convention that can be represented in plain text, just as
much of

mathematics can, according to UTN#28 Unicode Nearly Plain-Text
Encoding of Mathematics .

Both conventions can be rendered as "source" or in some more final form.

Another term for 'special convention' is "lightweight markup". I
believe that

describes the IDSs really well. One unusual feature is that the
operators use

dedicated characters, instead of assigning a convention to characters
that

have other, ordinary usages. But then, mathematics contains enough
dedicated

characters....

In any case, there is an implied higher level protocol. If sender and
receiver

agree to interpret the plain text as a convention, they can expect the
advanced

rendering - if not, plain text rendering will happen.

A./