On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:09:55PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Another thing about the glibc locales that I am somewhat sceptical about
> is that unassigned characters currently have iswprint() = 0. The BMP
> will continue to be extended for many years to come, and almost all
> characters that will go into currently unassigned slots will be
> printable. The locales would remain considerably more stable as Unicode
> evolves if iswprint(c) = 1 for all characters that are unassigned in the
> respective latest Unicode DB.

glibc should probably follow the latest Unicode standard (3.0.1) here; 
that is, treat U+2060..U+2069 and U+E0000..U+E1000 as Cf, and everything
else unassigned as printing.

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