Re: Corrigendum #9

From: David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:21:38 -0700

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Much as I don't like their uninvited use, it is possible to pass them
> and other undesirables through most applications by a slight bit of
> recoding at the application's boundaries. Using 99 = (3 + 32 + 64) PUA
> characters, one can ape UTF-16 surrogates and encode:

What's the point? If we can use the PUA, then we don't need the
noncharacters; we can just use the PUA directly. If we have to play
around with remapping them, they're pointless; they're no easier to
use in that case then ESC or '\' or PUA characters.

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