The problem is where to draw the line. In today's world, what's an app? You may have a cooperating system of "apps", where it is perfectly reasonable to interchange sentinel values (for example).
I agree with Markus; I think the FAQ is pretty clear. (And if not, that's where we should make it clearer.) Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Shawn Steele <shawn.ste...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I also think that the verbiage swung too far the other way. Sure, I > might need to save or transmit a file to talk to myself later, but apps > should be strongly discouraged for using these for interchange with other > apps. > > > > Interchange bugs are why nearly any news web site ends up with at least a > few articles with mangled apostrophes or whatever (because of encoding > differences). Should authors’ tools or feeds or databases or whatever > start emitting non-characters from internal use, then we’re going to have > ugly leak into text “everywhere”. > > > > So I’d prefer to see text that better permitted interchange with other > components of an application’s internal system or partner system, yet > discouraged use for interchange with “foreign” apps. > > > > -Shawn > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > >
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