Re: Corrigendum #9

The problem is where to draw the line. In today's world, what's an app? You
may have a cooperating system of "apps", where it is perfectly reasonable
to interchange sentinel values (for example).

I agree with Markus; I think the FAQ is pretty clear. (And if not, that's
where we should make it clearer.)

Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele_at_microsoft.com>
wrote:

> I also think that the verbiage swung too far the other way. Sure, I
> might need to save or transmit a file to talk to myself later, but apps
> should be strongly discouraged for using these for interchange with other
> apps.
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> Interchange bugs are why nearly any news web site ends up with at least a
> few articles with mangled apostrophes or whatever (because of encoding
> differences). Should authors’ tools or feeds or databases or whatever
> start emitting non-characters from internal use, then we’re going to have
> ugly leak into text “everywhere”.
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> So I’d prefer to see text that better permitted interchange with other
> components of an application’s internal system or partner system, yet
> discouraged use for interchange with “foreign” apps.
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> -Shawn
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