John:
> Final general comment: there are least two places, possibly more, in
> the text where "Unicode characters" is used in ways that can be taken
> as "non-ASCII characters" and not "any characters in the Unicode
> repertoire". Even if that interpretation is not intended, the
> phrasing should be avoided. I've identified specific examples below
> and proposed fixes, but might have missed some (and the advice may be
> of use for other documents and even the evolving Style Guide). In
> addition to the ASCII/ non-ASCII issues, there is potential confusion
> between "Unicode code point" and "Unicode character" (e.g.,
> \u006F\u0336 is a "Unicode character" by most definitions, but two
> code points). The definition in Section 1.1 ("...characters define
> in [UnicodeCurrent]") is not helpful in that regard, at least without
> a very specific pointer to a definition, not a wave of the hand in
> the direction of the current version of The Unicode Standard (now
> 13Mb of text in PDF form). I recommend avoiding "Unicode character",
> at least without a specific definition in a nearby sentence, entirely.
The document has a definition:
The term "Unicode characters" means characters define in
[UnicodeCurrent].
The summary of recent changes to Unicode says:
Unicode 17.0 adds 4803 characters, for a total of 159,801 characters.
The new additions include 4 new scripts ...
I conclude that "Unicode characters" is expected to be well understood term.
Russ
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