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 šŸ”“ (U+1F534), 🟢 (U+1F7E2), 
> and šŸ”µ (U+1F535)."
> 
> "A color display should be able to differentiate šŸ”“ (LARGE RED CIRCLE), 🟢 
> (LARGE GREEN CIRCLE), and šŸ”µ (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
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