Re: Unicode Stability

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 02:58:30 CST

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    Jon Hanna a écrit : 
    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.
    Its ?

    We were simply speaking of impact, go back to Doug Ewell message please :

    « Tragically, U+2028 and U+2029 are almost completely unused today, while
    the CR/LF silliness continues.  Ironically, it was probably the success
    of UTF-8, with its promise of ASCII compatibility, that spelled the end
    for U+2028.

    »

    P. A.


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