The Unicode ASCII range U+00-7F still shows elements of the out-
dated glyph approach instead of the intended character
abstraction. This mail tries to point out some places where
Unicode uses a text-oriented naming, tho a functionally oriented
naming would be more suitable. Historically, the 7-bits ASCII
characters were used for databases and programming languages. In
later years, text processing required better representations for
some of these functional characters. This led to extensions like
the well-known code-pages, ISO character standards, and So the
primary task of the ASCII-7 code is programming, not text
processing. This makes the ASCII characters primarily
functional. Unicode usually honors this fact by providing
alternative characters in order to get more beautiful, printable
look-alikes. Unfortunately, some names (and glyphs) do not
reflect this functional This might not seem a big problem today,
but there are some long-term considerations in some interpreter
languages to include wide characters