L2/08-328
Source: Ken Whistler
Date: October 14, 2008
Subject: Spreadsheet of Deprecation and Discouragement

Code Point(s) Name Deprecated in 5.1 Deprecated in 5.2+ DIC DIT Strongly? In NFC In NFKC Singleton Recommended alternative
U+0340 COMBINING GRAVE TONE MARK x             x U+0300
U+0341 COMBINING ACUTE TONE MARK x             x U+0301
U+17A3 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ x x x x yes x x   U+17A2
U+17D3 KHMER SIGN BATHAMASAT x   x   yes x x   U+19E0, etc.
U+206A..U+206F INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING, etc. x x   x yes x x   markup, other
U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG x x   x yes x x   markup
U+E0020..U+E007F TAG SPACE..CANCEL TAG x x   x yes x x   markup
                     
U+0149 LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE   x       x     <U+02BC, U+006E>
U+0344 COMBINING GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS     x           <U+0308, U+0301>
U+037E GREEK QUESTION MARK       x       x U+003B preferred
U+0387 GREEK ANO TELEIA       x       x U+00B7 preferred
U+0953 DEVANAGARI GRAVE ACCENT           x x    
U+0954 DEVANAGARI ACUTE ACCENT           x x    
U+0F07 TIBETAN MARK YIG MGO TSHEG SHAD MA           x x    
U+0F73 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN II     x x         <U+0F71, U+0F72>
U+0F75 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN UU     x x         <U+0F71, U+0F74>
U+0F77 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR   x x x yes x     <U+0FB2, U+0F71, U+0F80>
U+0F79 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL   x x x yes x     <U+0FB3, U+0F71, U+0F80>
U+0F81 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN REVERSED II     x x         <U+0F71, U+0F80>
U+17A4 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAA   x x x   x x   <U+17A2, U+17B6>
U+17B4 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ     x x   x x    
U+17B5 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA     x x   x x    
U+17D8 KHMER SIGN BEYYAL     x x   x x   <U+17D4, U+179B, U+17D4>
U+20A4 LIRA SIGN       x   x x   U+00A3 preferred
U+2126 OHM SIGN       x       x U+03A9
U+212A KELVIN SIGN       x       x U+004B
U+212B ANGSTROM SIGN       x       x U+00C5
U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET   x x x       x U+27E8 preferred (not NFC)
U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET   x x x       x U+27E9 preferred (not NFC)
U+F900 CJK COMPATIBLITY IDEOGRAPH-F900 (and a thousand others)               x U+8C48

 

  Explanation of abbreviations:
DIC discouraged in charts
DIT discouraged in text of standard
Strongly? Is the dicouragement strong?