RE: Roundtripping in Unicode Lars Kristan wrote: >>> All assigned codepoints do roundtrip even in my concept. >>> But unassigned codepoints are not valid data. >> >> Please make up your mind: either they are valid and programs are >> required to accept them, or they are invalid and programs are >> required to reject them. > > I don't know what they should be called. The fact is there shouldn't > be any. And that current software should treat them as valid. So, they > are not valid but cannot (and must not) be validated. As stupid as it > sounds. I am sure one of the standardizers will find a Unicodally > correct way of putting it.
I can't even understand that paragraph, let alone paraphrase it. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/