From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 22:47:08 CST
Michael D'Errico <mike dash list at pobox dot com> wrote:
> So, really, the answer is that this has to be done in the unused
> Unicode planes, at least until programming languages migrate to UTF-8
> internally. Again, I'm not going to hold my breath.
See, this is why people have to stop talking about how evil and
dangerous the PUA is. Creative minds look for alternatives such as
"extending" the Unicode architecture beyond plane 16, which is orders of
magnitude more evil and dangerous.
The Plane 14 language tags, which we all know are deprecated and
considered totally unnecessary, were created in direct response to a
similar proposal to "extend" UTF-8 by using invalid code unit sequences
to encode language tags.
-- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ
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