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

On 1/2/2013 9:00 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> 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

OK. There are a few terms where Unicode doesn't use the space. I could
have sworn this was one of them, looks like I got it backwards.

A./
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> From: Asmus Freytag <mailto:asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
> Sent: ‎1/‎1/‎2013 23:43
> To: Costello, Roger L. <mailto:costello_at_mitre.org>
> Cc: unicode_at_unicode.org <mailto: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./
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