RE: Definitions

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 12:09:11 EST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of jameskass@att.net

James:

> Inside a program, for instance...

This is *very* faulty logic. Variable names exist in source code only,
and have nothing whatsoever to do with the data actually processed.
You're also referring to an assigned character in your example, not a
PUA codepoint. ...

A software product could assign every single PUA codepoint to mean some
kind of formatting instruction, and insert these into the text like
markup. In that case, a user's PUA characters will be re-interpreted by
that software as formatting instructions. Is that product conformant?
Yes. Is it useful? Not for that user.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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