Appendix A: Notational Conventions On Friday, August 12, 2016, Sean Leonard <lists+unic...@seantek.com> wrote:
> It appears that U+hhhh[h[h]] NAME syntax is a very common--one might say > "standard"--way of representing a particular Unicode character or code > point in text. > > It is the way that the Unicode Standard 9.0.0 refers to particular > characters, and I have seen it around quite a bit. The Unicode Standard > appears to put the NAME in small-caps format (but a plain text PDF search > using Adobe Acrobat DC suggests that the underlying characters are > lowercase), while in plain text, the name is generally all-capitalized (as > it appears in the UCD). > > Is there a section of the Unicode Standard, or some TR, that discusses > this format or gives it a formal name? (I hunted but did not find > discussion in the Unicode Standard.) Is it given any kind of preference or > recommendations over other forms of identifying Unicode code points or > characters? > > Thanks, > > Sean > >
