Re: Rationale wanted for Unicode identifier rules

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 10:14:28 EST


"Addison Phillips [GSC]" wrote:

> >though it would accept symbols from Unicode 4.0, a Unicode 4.0 generator
> >process will never generate any.
>
> You mean "though it would accept symbols from Unicode 4.0, a Unicode *3.0*
> generator process will never generate any", I think...

Well, neither one. But my point was that although the 3.0 reader would
accept unknown characters that wind up being assigned as symbols in 4.0,
a compliant 4.0 writer would never generate such a character.

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