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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 01:24 pm, John Cowan wrote: > However, the control characters are *characters*, not really very > different from other control characters in the Unicode space > which are already allowed: not only the ISO C1 controls, but > also such things as: the Mongolian variant controls (and the > Unicode 3.2 generic variant controls); the bidi marks, overrides, > etc; and the music symbol begins/ends. Yeah... we can have a debate about this. Some of the control characters have pretty varied applications/semantics. In terms of the character/glyph model, which is what we base all this stuff on to a degree, it's somewhat less clear whether these should really be a character or not. Seems to me that Unicode, while making a valiant effort, is also not immune to the pragmatic issues of current use and grandfathering existing data.
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