Re: CESU-8: to document or not

2001-09-17 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-09-17 13:06:16 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I agree that there is a world of software out there that does not support > Unicode 3.1 yet. Toby has a legitimate problem. It is the proposed solution > that bothers me. For now I suspect that living w

RE: CESU-8: to document or not

2001-09-17 Thread Carl W. Brown
Addison, > > By providing a documented, standard way to refer to legacy > versions of these products and their encodings, I can more > readily rely on having a well-documented range of protocols and > procedures for converting and validating data exchanged with > these systems. The argument

CESU-8: to document or not

2001-09-17 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
Folks, I've been following this thread for awhile and it seems that I can make a small contribution. Several comments have been made about why we should NOT document this and give it some kind of official imprimatur. I agree that it will generate more confusion and may be used in unforeseen w