Re: Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?

> Unicode does not encode what *might* be used, it encodes what *has*
been used.

A blatant problem with this affirmation is that from 2000s-forward,
everything text
related goes _through_ unicode - including the characters used in the
(allegedly more serious than 2D diagrams or art)  mission of writing systems
 for spoken languages.  TL;DR: if this is true, than all innovation is writing
is ultimately fated to come to an end as unicode asymptotically encodes
whatever it deems worthy from pre-1999, and then all human writing and
characters should be frozen forever.

At some point this will obviously have to be reviewed.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM Julian Bradfield via Unicode
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2024-08-14, Martin Vahi via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> > text that people once wrote on paper, not for "2D drawing hacks" like
> > ASCII art and diagrams, I devilishly stumbled upon the idea that plain
> > text in computers has always been used for more than just classical
> > literature. An example that nobody reads as written form of a human
> > language, is an interactive progress bar that consists of dots like
> >
> >      |0%........         100%|
>
> That is a use of *existing* plain text to approximate the desired
> graphical impression.
>
> > art and progress bar in computers and it would be quite cheap from spent
> > code points amount point of view to define some small set of special
> > characters for doing almost arbitrary 2D drawing, then what's the harm
> > of defining that small set of such "sprite role" characters, specially
>
> Unicode does not encode what *might* be used, it encodes what *has*
> been used.
>
> > For example, if a monospace character area is divided to 16 pixel
> > rows and 8 pixel columns and each character of that drawing character
> > set fills exactly one of those pixels, then there would be exactly
> > 16*8=128 such one pixel depicting characters. Those 128 characters
> > could be visually used on top of each other just like accents are
>
> You are William Overington and I claim my five pounds ... (British
> cultural reference, google Lobby Lud).