Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 13:39:37 EST


On 02/20/2001 11:18:40 AM Tobias Hunger wrote:

>Looks like David was quoting me. I am working on Babylon and wanted to
make
>clear that it is not unicode conformant as its API uses 32bit wide
characters
>which violates clause 1 of Section 3.1.

This is something that UTC should clean up because C1 is obsolete. In fact,
UTC just took that action when they met a couple of weeks ago:

[86-M8] Motion: Amend Unicode 3.1 to change the Chapter 3, C1 conformance
clause to read "A process shall interpret Unicode code units (values) in
accordance with the Unicode transformation format used." (passed)

So, when TUS3.1 is published later this year, you will not have any
problems with conformance with that version of the Standard. (C1 was really
obsolete back in version 2.0 when UTF-8 was first adopted into the
Standard, but it took a while for that to get fixed.)

- Peter

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