Re: Unicode "no-op" Character?

2019-06-24 Thread J Decker via Unicode
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 5:35 PM David Starner via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Shawn Steele via Unicode > wrote: > > IMO, since it's unlikely that anyone expects > that they can transmit a NUL through an arbitrary channel, unlike a > random private use

Re: Unicode "no-op" Character?

2019-06-24 Thread David Starner via Unicode
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Shawn Steele via Unicode wrote: > Which leads us to the key. The desire is for a character that has no public > meaning, but has some sort of private meaning. In other words it has a > private use. Oddly enough, there is a group of characters intended for > p

RE: Unicode "no-op" Character?

2019-06-24 Thread SÅ‚awomir Osipiuk via Unicode
It's discardable outside of the context/process that created it. For a receiving process there is a difference between "this character has a meaning you don't understand" and "this character had a transitory meaning that has been exhausted". The first implies that it needs to be preserved and survi