On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:21:38 -0700 David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Richard Wordingham > <richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Using 99 = (3 + > > 32 + 64) PUA characters, one can ape UTF-16 surrogates and encode: > What's the point? If we can use the PUA, then we don't need the > noncharacters; we can just use the PUA directly. If we have to play > around with remapping them, they're pointless; they're no easier to > use in that case then ESC or '\' or PUA characters. A search for two 2-character string '\n' would also find a substring of 4-character string 'a\\n'. The PUA is in general not available for general utilities to make special use of. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode