reassigned to bh

adding dina as cc

This would be useful for many purposes.
Some characters are very similar, for instance a
Lucida sans greek chi looks like x, an upperlined cyrillic h looks like Planck's
constant symbol, zero looks like O, a cyrillic capital A is exactly like a latin
A and like a capital greek alpha etc.

A character should be chosen via its Unicode number or name there.

Cf. issue 50 100.

I want somtimes use a character where I only know the 'spoken' name. Especially
some greek characters like sigma, omega, phi which are often used in
mathemathical expressions. It would be very usefull to have the name of the
character displayed. Maybe as fly over help?

Regards Jörg Wartenberg

Characters have official  French names (ISO 10646 (F)) found in several places
for free :

www.unicode.org/fr/charts (yes, the Unicode site)

http://hapax.qc.ca/Tableaux-4.1.htm

http://hapax.qc.ca/UnicodeData-4.1.0.fr.txt

Microsoft uses the names for characters in French Windows XP, but not for its
blocks but then Microsoft's names are not only unofficial but fanciful sometimes
(like of understanding by translator).

Characters have official  French names (ISO 10646 (F)) found in several places
for free :

www.unicode.org/fr/charts (yes, the Unicode site)

http://hapax.qc.ca/Tableaux-4.1.htm

http://hapax.qc.ca/UnicodeData-4.1.0.fr.txt

Microsoft uses the names for characters in French Windows XP, but not for its
blocks but then Microsoft's names are not only unofficial but fanciful sometimes
(lack of understanding by translator).

This would be most useful, not only for searching purposes but also to 
distinguish lookalikes.

The English names are freely available here: 
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

(would be great to include the aliases in a search, often more user friendly).

I think some German Unicode names exist freely on a site 
(http://www.decodeunicode.org/index.php?nodeId=100014&page=&lang=1&zoom=&prop=).

For languages other than English and French, where no complete official name 
list exists, the localizer could :

-- display no name
-- display the English name (I think Windows does this in China)
-- display the French name (for instance for Berber, Provençal, other African 
languages in the French sphere)
-- display some localized names (the most frequent ones) and mask the other 
names
-- display some localized names (the most frequent ones) and display English or 
French names for the other, less frequent, more exotic, names.

Lots of ways to do, total freedom left to the localizer and slow improvement 
across languages.

Could a target milestone be mentioned for this enhancement ?

In fact it should be ISO/IEC 10646 character names (and possibly localized names
beyond official languages of ISO), not Unicode (there exists a French version of
character names in the ISO/IEC equivalent of Unicode, and that also helps
translate into other languages, as the French version offers extra intercultural
information in many cases [case 1])and in certain cases rectifies errors on
names which were stated as being unchangeable in Unicode [case 2]. In some cases
English names should be "localized" too in particular for [case 2], my suggestion.

Examples:

[Case 1]
Standardized English name:
1F01	GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH DASIA
Standardized French name
1F01	LETTRE MINUSCULE GRECQUE ALPHA ESPRIT RUDE

Standardized English name:
234E APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DOWN TACK JOT
Standardized French name:
234E SYMBOLE DE FONCTION APL FORMATAGE


[Case 2]
Standardized English name:
2351 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL UP TACK OVERBAR (unfixable standardization mistake)
Standardized French name:
2351 SYMBOLE DE FONCTION APL TAQUET VERS LE BAS SURLIGNÉ

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".