RE: Unicode Stability

From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 23:09:30 CST

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    > Jon Hanna a écrit :
    >
    > How about the impact of XML's choice of
    > converting line-end
    > characters
    > (even U+2028) to U+000A ?
    >
    >
    >
    > Nil. It provides different mechanisms for indicating
    > the same semantic distinctions.
    >
    >
    > Well, surely it does not promote the use of U+2028...

    It's not it's job to promote it's use. When semantics are provided by both Unicode and markup then the mechanism in the markup should be used.

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    Jon Hanna
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