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

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Sun, 17 September 2023 03:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] [art] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-04.txt
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On Sep 15, 2023 at 1:43:53 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

>     Noncharacters and legacy controls are unlikely to cause software
>     failures, but they cannot usefully be displayed to humans, and can be
>     used in attacks based on misleading human readers of text that
>     display them.  [TR36]
>
> For the purpose of "usefully displaying to humans" Unicode has the
> dedicated code points U+2400 "SYMBOL FOR NULL" - U+2421 "SYMBOL
> FOR DELETE", plus U+2424 - U+2426.
>

That’s horrible. I’m not convinced that “useful” applies.

  It is unlikely that anyone specifying a new data format would choose
>   to allow the Unicode Code Points character repertoire.
>
> As a non-native english speaker i would think of "full" or
> "complete" repertoire's?
>

Good point.

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