Unique character names
"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]>
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UAX #34 has the following to say about unique naming of character sequences, and by extension, characters: > R3: Like character names, names for sequences are unique if they are > different even when SPACE and medial HYPHEN-MINUS characters are > ignored, and when the strings “LETTER”, “CHARACTER”, and “DIGIT” are > ignored in comparison of the names. > > The following two character names are exceptions to this rule, because > they were created before this rule was specified: > > 116C HANGUL JUNGSEONG OE > 1180 HANGUL JUNGSEONG O-E > > Examples of unacceptable names that are not unique: > > SARATI LETTER AA > SARATI CHARACTER AA I'm wondering if this rule applies to the string "LETTER" in the following character names: U+210C BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL H U+2111 BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL I U+211C BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL R U+2128 BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL Z U+212D BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL C In other words, would a hypothetical character name "BLACK CHARACTER CAPITAL H" violate this rule? (This is not meant as a joke, by the way; I'm playing around with algorithms for efficient storage of character names.) -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://home.roadrunner.com/~dewell http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ