27 Jul
2010
27 Jul
'10
3:31 p.m.
I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender pronoun.
Unicode encodes scripts, not languages, so that's outside of its scope. Even if you were to develop a new character that would function as a neutral gender pronoun in English or other languages, it would still be attached to one (or several) language(s). You're of course free to advocate its use in all existing languages with a written standard, but that would take some time ;-) And even then, it would leave out the vast majority of languages, those that are only spoken. Arthur