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Re: [I18ndir] [art] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-05.txt

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Wed, 20 September 2023 19:35 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:34:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] [art] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-05.txt
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 12:25 PM Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2023 at 4:04:02 PM, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > The Unicode Standard's definition of "Unicode character" is conceptual.
>> > However, each Unicode character is assigned a code point, used to
>> represent
>> > the characters in computer memory and storage systems and, in
>> specifications,
>> > to specify the allowed repertoires of Unicode characters.
>>
>> I think you want to add: "Not all code points represent characters."
>>
>
> I think this is rather fully covered in the immediately following
> paragraph.
>

All of your other responses make sense to me (including the follow up about
"problematic"), even if I disagree.

This one I think is still needed. The follow-up paragraph implies that
there are only code points yet to be assigned. Maybe:

 "Not all assigned code points represent characters."

thanks,
Rob

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