On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:01:53 -0700 > "Steven R. Loomis" <s...@icu-project.org> wrote: > > > May I ask if you have a specific example in mind? Is the U in ICU > > misleading somehow, or CLDR recommending a policy for plain text? > > I had no examples of untrue or misleading statements about Unicode > standards and ICU in mind. > > I believe the plain text example was hyperbole. There is an issue > resulting from the use of non-characters in CLDR root collation, and as > you seem unaware of it, I have raised the matter as > http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/5115 . I fear there may be a > practical reason for the forbidden behaviour, so fixing the issue may > well end up being deferred to allow CLDR users time to improve their > compliance with the LDML specification. I was totally unaware of it. Thanks for being specific! I suspect it was simply an oversight and not indicative of any systemic issue. UTS#35 gives the example of <cp hex="0"> for representing NULL as an example of a character not to be used in XML. Note that there's nothing wrong with processing non-characters in memory- I have to deal with non-characters all the time. Thanks for filing the bug. Regards, Steven
