Re: Form feed in Net-UTF8? (Was: FWD: Re: Comments onUnicode Format for Network Interchange

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

John C Klensin wrote:
> While I could live with the text you propose above, it seems to
> me to lead onto a slippery slope.  Try substituting, for "page
> breaks" above, terms like "alert sounds", "visual emphasis such
> as highlighting or colored characters", or "flashing lines".
> FormFeeds are much more frequent in text, and do appear in RFCs,
> but the principles are, I think, the same.


Seems like the discussion is really distinguishing among different classes of 
use, where each might be labeled distinctly and have variants of permitted 
characters.

(I'm not expressing an opinion about whether this is a good thing to do, but 
merely noting that I think it is what is driving the discussion.

So the set for "data stream", such as protocol commands, needs minimal format 
effectors.  Whereas "document stream" probably needs all the format effectors 
and other visual indicators.

The reference to beeps suggests another role, which I suppose is a superset of 
format effectors and might be classed as "user interface" or somesuch.

Mumble...

d/

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   Dave Crocker
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