Are there any pre-Unicode 5.2 applications still in existence?

From: Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:54:57 +0000

Hi Folks,

I have learned that:

    In some versions prior to Unicode 5.2, conformance clause C7
    allowed the deletion of noncharacter code points [1]

Are there still in existence applications which delete noncharacter code points from strings?

Are there any pre-Unicode 5.2 applications still in existence?

The paper at [1] describes the security risk with deleting noncharacter code points. Is this risk still a concern, or can one assume that there are no more applications which delete noncharacter code points?

/Roger

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/#Deletion_of_Noncharacters
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