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Re: [I18ndir] [art] Just uploaded draft-bray-unichars-03

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Sat, 09 September 2023 23:07 UTC

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From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:07:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] [art] Just uploaded draft-bray-unichars-03
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On Sep 8, 2023 at 1:16:45 PM, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would change
>
> "These numbers are used to represent the characters in computer memory and
> storage systems and, in specifications, to specify the allowed repertoires
> of Unicode characters."
>
> to
>
> "These numbers are used to represent the allowed repertoires of Unicode
> characters."
>

Don’t buy it. The code points only *represent* the characters when used
within computer-processable text. When they are discussed in documents such
as this, they are the code points *assigned to* the characters.  One
previous contributor to this discussion (sorry, can’t find it on a glance
through the thread) forced us to take a really careful look at this
terminology and I think where we’ve ended up is good.

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