Re: Unicode Stability (Was: Re: E0000 Language Tags for Some Obscure Languages)

From: Elliotte Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 05:38:00 CST

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    Doug Ewell wrote:

    > There was a proposal to deprecate the Plane 14 tags; indeed, it was the
    > very first Public Review Issue. The UTC decided not to go quite that
    > far. Really, no opinions have ever changed that much regarding the
    > Plane 14 tags. They were born as the red-headed stepchildren of
    > Unicode; they were created only to prevent a particular protocol from
    > using a mutant form of UTF-8 for language tagging.
    >

    Which protocol was that?

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