On 08/14/2002 04:17:29 AM "James Kass" wrote: >Can't apps needing internal processing code points which >are only going to be deleted before export simply use the PUA?
NO! E.g. if your word processor used E000 to indicate an anchor point for a table, and I use E000 for capital U-bar, what's going to happen when I import my data into your app? Basically, you can think of the FDD0..FDEF columns as programmer/control-PUA -- safely segregated from the user/content-PUA (aka "the PUA"). >No application should delete anything without first asking the user's >permission. > >Imagine spending considerable time and effort getting a text to >look just as desired only to have some application arbitrarily decide >to delete half of it without your permission or knowledge. But no app should depend upon non-character codepoints being safely transmitted in order to maintain a certain look -- the Standard tells them plainly this is bad. And if they're not being transmitted, well, any well-written app isn't going to delete code values that it has inserted for it's own internal purposes until it knows that it's done with them. The discussion of deletion has been in the context of app A leaking its junk, and app B receiving that junk and deciding what to do with it. In that case, deletion is quite reasonable. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
