From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 06:03:30 EDT
On 05/08/2003 17:13, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Peter Kirk said:
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>> From what Ken says, it sounds like it will be wrong from whenever
>>Unicode 4.0 is officially issued
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>Actually Unicode 4.0 was officially issued on April 17, 2003.
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>What we are waiting on now is for the publication of the text
>of the book to catch up to that fact. ;-)
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>>I was misled by Jim's
>>reference to the URL of the final draft (as clearly stamped on the first
>>page) of 4.0, but since in fact he was quoting from 3.0 what he says can
>>hardly be considered obsolete yet.
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>Actually it can. And that would have been obvious to everyone if
>a preview version of Chapter 4 had also been posted.
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>Once again, I appeal to people to stop trying to second-guess
>the text of the standard. The final pdf for the online version
>is in preparation even as I write this. The final final
>proofs for the book itself have already been produced by
>the printer -- all they need to do now is turn on the press
>and start the binder.
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>If everyone would just go off for a week or two on their
>August vacation, like they should be, we could all come back
>about Labor Day and we wouldn't have to be having these
>discussions. ;-)
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>--Ken
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OK, understood now. As the previous version is obsolete, and the new one
is unavailable, we can all take a break from conforming to Unicode at
all and take a vacation! Sounds a good idea to me ;-)
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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