RE: Terminology: does the term "codepoint" apply to non-Unicode character sets?

Asmus wrote:

> Both spellings, with and without the intervening space, can be found, but Unicode uses the term only without the space.

This didn't sound right to me, so I checked the Glossary, and it lists the term as two words with a space.

http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_point

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Asmus Freytag" <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
Sent: ‎1/‎1/‎2013 23:43
To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello_at_mitre.org>
Cc: "unicode_at_unicode.org" <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Subject: Re: Terminology: does the term "codepoint" apply to non-Unicode character sets?
On 1/1/2013 12:43 PM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Does the term "codepoint" apply to non-Unicode character sets?
>
> For example, are there codepoints in iso-8859-1? In Windows-1252?
>
> /Roger
>
>
>
The short answer is "yes".
The term code point was in use for locations in IBM code pages long 
before Unicode was created; in the context of other standards, slightly 
different terms were in use, such as "code location". (Windows-1252, 
while created by Microsoft, was registered in the IBM code page 
collection at the time, which assigned to it the number 1252, so the use 
of "code point"  for that character set is definitely an extension of 
the earlier usage).
It's worthwhile to make sure that if you operate in the context of some 
other standard, that you make sure you follow the terminology as defined 
there, but for general use, the word code point is not tied to or 
reserved for Unicode (but make sure you are clear which character set 
you are talking about).
Both spellings, with and without the intervening space, can be found, 
but Unicode uses the term only without the space.
A./