Re: Corrigendum #9

On 06/01/2014 10:07 AM, Markus Scherer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Karl Williamson <public_at_khwilliamson.com
> <mailto:public_at_khwilliamson.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I had not thought about that. I'm thinking wording
> something like this is more appropriate
>
> "Noncharacters may be openly interchanged, but it is inadvisable to
> do so without prior agreement, since at each stage any of them might
> be replaced by a REPLACEMENT CHARACTER or otherwise disposed of, at
> the sole discretion of that stage's implementation."
>
>
> I think that would invite again the kinds of implementations that
> triggered Corrigendum #9, where you couldn't use CLDR files with
> Gnome-based tools (plain text editors, file diff tools, command-line
> terminal) if the files contained noncharacters. (CLDR data uses them for
> boundary mappings in collation data.)
>
> markus

I don't understand your point. Are you saying that Gnome should not
have the discretion to rid its inputs of noncharacters? If so, then
noncharacters really are just Gc=Co ones.
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