On Oct 14, 2025, at 11:33, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > It appears that Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> said: >> Greetings again. I have made the changes suggested in the discussion of the >> -04 version. Given the light discussion of the last two >> drafts, I believe this version is ready for WG Last Call, if the WG Chairs >> agree. > > I don't remember whether we've gone over this, but is there a reason to > prefer U+nnnn over > the Unicode character descriptions, rather than to say use either depending > on context, e.g.: > > "A color display should be able to differentiate š“ (U+1F534), š¢ (U+1F7E2), > and šµ (U+1F535)." > > "A color display should be able to differentiate š“ (LARGE RED CIRCLE), š¢ > (LARGE GREEN CIRCLE), and šµ (LARGE BLUE CIRCLE)."
There is a strong guarantee that the codepoint will not change. There is a weaker guarantee that the character names will change. --Paul Hoffman -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
