On Sun, 20 May 2001, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> Based on the fact that any changes, however well intentioned, are going to
> have such high costs attached to them it is reasonable to ask how
> compelling the case is for this change. [Of course, had we had this
> discussion at the time of the original design of the algorithm ten years
> ago, we might have come to a different conclusion.]
I understand now: There is little difference between a small change and a
big change. If there is a workaround, there will be no change.
> The use of combining underscore for regular text underlining is surely
> somewhat deprecated. Perhaps we need to review the language in the book as
> part of our rewrite for Unicode 4.0.
A question: what is the procedure for deprecating something? Does UTC
decide on these? Where should I ask for deprecation of a character or
usage?
--roozbeh
