Re: [I18ndir] [art] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-04.txt

[Steffen Nurpmeso <[e-mail]>]

Asmus Freytag wrote in
 <[e-mail]>:
 ...
 |The disconnect may be that Unicode needs to define "string" in ways that 
 |are not limited to interchange.
 |
 |A string data type may transiently be in state that is not well-formed, 
 |or may be able to hold ill-formed input data before verifying its status.
 |
 |Unicode, in other words, has to be universal covering ALL possible uses 
 |of a "string". The same is not true for a protocol that defines a record 
 |with data fields. Those fields don't need to be able to accommodate 
 |ill-formed data.
 |
 |The exception might be a protocol that is "just a pipe". In that case, 
 |the responsibility for enforcing well-formedness belongs to (usually) 
 |the receiver connected to that "pipe". Such a protocol may well want to 
 |allow "all unicode code points".

Another thought i had during this thread.
Here in Hesse[n] Germany, already over 90 years ago, and
occasionally ever since, often in the say last 25 years, the
Rechnungshof (audit court) urged to care for the countryside
(besides the usual wastefulness), aka denounced the disparity.
(Leading to real desertification, and villages without bank,
doctor, even bakeries etc.)
Finally, a few years back, politics listened and actively started
to work the topic.  As a result there now is a law which says the
same.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)