At 03:36 PM 8/6/99 -0700, Geoffrey Waigh wrote:
>But if you don't know how to correctly map it, putting it somewhere else
>is bad too. People can kludge it with remapping out of the incorrect
If you use distinct PUA (=aka EUDC) positions for all holes in all legacy
sets, you can in principle round-trip anything, and kludge to your hearts
content (and with the new 128K user characters in surrograte space, you can
really party.
>spot afterwards, though if they have multiple source codepages that
>filled in their holes differently, that might not be such an easy task.
>
>At least with FFFD, the user knows they have to upgrade their software -
>which is another reason that having Unicode properties and libraries
>in a system supplied standard package rather than done in each
>application is a Good Thing. Alas, the politics on that one will
>dog us for many years.
I see that you are a supporter of the Principled position (P).
A./
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