RE: Corrigendum #9

From: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele_at_microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 22:07:03 +0000

Except that, particularly the max-weight ones, mean that developers can be expected to use this as sentinels in code using ICU, which would preclude their use for other things?

Which makes them more like “reserved for use in CLDR” than “noncharacters”?

-Shawn

From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Markus Scherer
Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 2:53 PM
To: David Starner
Cc: Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: Corrigendum #9

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com<mailto:prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
I would especially discourage any web browser from handling
these; they're noncharacters used for unknown purposes that are
undisplayable and if used carelessly for their stated purpose, can
probably trigger serious bugs in some lamebrained utility.

I don't expect "handling these" in web browsers and lamebrained utilities. I expect "treat like unassigned code points".

markus

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