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Rick Jelliffe scripsit: > > However, I presume there was a good reason why the current name character > > scheme was implemented. The reasons I can think of are easily dismissed > or > > dealt with. Are there any other more serious implications? > > Yes. [excellent list snipped] > 7) Because it is not really very expensive to implement. But just allowing > any surrogate without nitpicking is fine. This is the only bit I have trouble with. Astral Plane characters (despite the wiseass unofficial name) have just the same issues as Basic Multilingual Plane ones: in particular, on Plane 2 there is a big hunk of compatibility ideographs used for CNS round-tripping, which should be excluded for exactly the same reasons that the Korean round-trippers on the BMP should be: they are *exactly* the same as existing unified (i.e. regular) ideographs, and are kept only because of a legacy character set. -- John Cowan cowan@c... One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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