Re: [I18ndir] [art] New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-06.txt

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 01 October 2023 17:56 UTC

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On 2023-10-01, at 19:44, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
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> I repeat: To inform protocol designers that it’s insufficient to say “Unicode characters” for their text fields. And, having explained why, offer reasonable alternative character repertoires.

That is approximately the reason why I wrote modern-network-unicode.
Please explain how draft-bray-unichars is more useful for this purpose.
It doesn’t even distinguish 1d from 2d applications.
That is not the level of advice I saw that people needed when I decided to write modern-network-unicode.

Grüße, Carsten