RE: Proposed Draft UTR #31 - Syntax Characters

From: Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 05:44:45 EDT

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    > This notice is relevant to anyone dealing with programming languages,
    query
    > specifications, regular expressions, scripting languages, and similar
    domains.

    That's me.

    I read the draft, and actually I was very happy with it. No complaints at
    all. I am particularly happy that the mathematical letters and numbers
    (1D400-1D7FF) will be permitted in identifiers. This is important because it
    allows mathematical expressions and programming-language expressions to use
    the same symbols (for the first time!). I also noted the comment about how
    specific porgramming languages could, if they wished, ignore <font>
    equivalences (and hence ignore the mathematical letters and numbers) - so I
    guess that keeps everyone happy.

    I would have used the feedback form, but I didn't see much point as I had no
    complaints.
    Jill

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Rick McGowan [mailto:rick@unicode.org]
    Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:23 PM
    To: unicode@unicode.org
    Subject: Proposed Draft UTR #31 - Syntax Characters

    This notice is relevant to anyone dealing with programming languages, query
    specifications, regular expressions, scripting languages, and similar
    domains.

    The Proposed Draft UTR #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax will be discussed
    at
    the UTC meeting next week. Part of that document (Section 4) is a proposal
    for
    two new immutable properties, Pattern_White_Space and Pattern_Syntax. As
    immutable properties, these would not ever change once they are introduced
    into
    the standard, so it is important to get feedback on their contents
    beforehand.

    The UTC will not be making a final determination on these properties at this
    meeting, but it is important that any feedback on them is supplied as early
    in
    the process as possible so that it can be considered thoroughly. The draft
    is
    found at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ and feedback can be submitted
    as
    described there.

    Regards,
            Rick McGowan
            Unicode, Inc.

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