Re: U+xxxx, U-xxxxxx, and the basics

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 11:28:23 EST

Peter Constable wrote:

> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q WITH CIRCUMFLEX is a text element, but
> not a Unicode abstract character.

Right enough. It is not a *Unicode* abstract character, because it is
not encoded in Unicode (though it is representable in Unicode). But it is
an abstract character nonetheless: nothing says that every abstract
character must be encoded in Unicode.

Specifically, see clause 3.3, definition D3, bullet point 5. 

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