On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Arthur Reutenauer
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.
I don't see how this applies: there are plenty of characters provided by Unicode that can be used regardless of which language I am writing in.. such as the male/female symbols already mentioned. So in this case, it would be a symbol for the 'language of the internet', not simply for a single language. Some symbols are available regardless of the general language used, correct? Granted, I know next to nothing about font encodings, so I'll defer here to the knowledge of others.