From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 07:20:13 CDT
At 12:42 03/05/20 +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>In <3EC8F86B.5040002@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com>
>writes:
> >If "column" is meant to relate to display issues, that's not necessarily
> >correct, as display might use a proportional-spacing font, in which case
> >"column" has no meaning.
>
>The word we want has to describe the object that will appear on the
>display as a single entity (but which might, after I18N has happened,
>consist of a base character with added decorations). I agree that column
>could be misleading in some contexts. I see that "glyph" and "symbol" have
>been suggested, and I would be happy with either if the WG agrees (mildly
>prefer "glyph" over "symbol"). Or is there some other standard word which
>the Unicode people use? Martin?
First, you have to know what you want, then you can choose the word.
I think what Bruce wrote is probably going into the right direction.
Regards, Martin.