Topic: UCNs less than 00A0
Author: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1999/09/09 Raw View
In article <37D5A7F6.B4DD6A39@cs.berkeley.edu>, John Hauser
<jhauser@cs.berkeley.edu> writes
>Larry Jones:
>> A bigger drawback is the constraint in 6.4.3 that "A universal
>> character name shall not specify a character whose short identifier
>> is less than 00A0...".
>Clive Feather:
>> We meant to exclude:
>> - the C basic source characters
>> - the C0 and C1 control spaces (0 to 31, 127 to 159).
>> The cited words are the minimum that achieve that goal.
>
>What about \u0024 ($), \u0040 (@), and \u0060 (`)?
The *cited* words (as opposed to the quoted ones) continue with "...
other than 0024 ($), 0040 (@), or 0060 (`),".
They then add: "nor one in the range D800 through DFFF inclusive.",
which exclude the multi-Unicode encoding values.
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Author: John Hauser <jhauser@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: 1999/09/08 Raw View
Larry Jones:
> A bigger drawback is the constraint in 6.4.3 that "A universal
> character name shall not specify a character whose short identifier
> is less than 00A0...".
Douglas Gwyn:
> If we meant to exclude *only* the C basic source
> characters then that's what we should have said.
Clive Feather:
> We meant to exclude:
> - the C basic source characters
> - the C0 and C1 control spaces (0 to 31, 127 to 159).
> The cited words are the minimum that achieve that goal.
What about \u0024 ($), \u0040 (@), and \u0060 (`)?
- John Hauser
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