How to know what codepoints are unassigned

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Sat May 3 15:25:07 CEST 2008


theorem 207: everything is more complicated.

:-)

v

On May 2, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:

>
> On 30 apr 2008, at 22.38, Mark Davis wrote:
>
>> The code points that are unassigned (gc=Cn) but that should be
>> DISALLOWED are all and only the Noncharacters.
>
> What has confused me all the time here is that I interpreted what  
> Mark say as if gc=Cn give the unassigned codepoints.
>
> That is not true, wich shows that I misunderstood what he here wrote.
>
> gc=Cn gives the unassigned codepoints PLUS the Noncharacter ones.
>
> So, one can NOT use gc=Cn as a test for unassigned codepoints. It  
> is more complicated than that.
>
>     Patrik
>
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