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

[Asmus Freytag <[e-mail]>]

On 9/16/2023 2:19 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
>
>
> > Note that the Unicode-character subsets specified in this document 
> include a successively-decreasing number of surrogates and 
> noncharacters, and thus should be less and less susceptible to 
> vulnerabilities.
>
> I think the document could use a pass reviewing all of the compound 
> adjectives. There are straightforward cases, but there are some 
> composed of two nouns (debatably correct, but could be clearer) and 
> this one with an adverb, which I think is actually incorrect. There 
> are just a lot of them, too. I can understand getting there if you're 
> writing really fast, I also overuse patterns when writing quickly.

In this example, I would have left out the hyphen.

"Unicode character subsets".

Personally, I tend to write "subsets of Unicode characters" instead.

FWIW, I don't think the Unicode Standard contains any usage with a 
hyphen after Unicode in over a thousand pages of text. I could be wrong, 
but I don't recall any.

A./

PS: it seems to me this is getting to the level of copy editing and I 
believe there will be a pass for that.