Re: UTF-8S (was: Re: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8)

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 02:31:18 EDT


In a message dated 2001-05-29 12:42:38 Pacific Daylight Time,
Jianping.Yang@oracle.com writes:

>> How long is "the past"? I remember reading about these surrogates the
first
>> time I put my hands on a draft copy of ISO 10646. It was nearly six years
>> ago.
>
> Surrogate range was defined there but no character was defined in that
range
> until recently.

This is completely irrelevant. There is no character defined at U+0220, but
I have no business designing an application that is permanently incapable of
handling such a character, should there ever be one, and even less business
demanding that the code point be permanently reserved due to the inability of
my application to handle it.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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