Re: Plain text: Amendment 1

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 22:58:38 EDT


Kenneth Whistler scripsit:

> However, UTR #13 constitutes "Unicode Newline *Guidelines*" [emphasis
> added]. There is no conformance specification and there are no
> normative implications. The scope constitutes: "a set of
> recommendations for handling these characters so as to minimize the
> effects on users." Think of UTR #13 as a late addition to Chapter 5,
> Implementation Guidelines, that did not make it into the actual printed
> text of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, forthcoming.

Ah, I missed that point. But my point was that whereas Unicode 2.0
had nothing to say about CR and LF and N(E)L, Unicode 3.0 does.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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