Public Review Issue #181: Changing General Category of Twelve Characters

[Mark Davis ☕]

That was one of the considerations in the discussion; the effect on
identifiers (IDNA and others).

Mark

*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*


2011/4/4 Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se>

> I also would like to get a firm response from Unicode people as well, BUT,
> by just quickly looking at the change, I can only see the change gc=Ll to
> gc=Lm be something that have to do with IDNA2008.
>
> And as rule A of IDNA2008 is the following:
>
> A: General_Category(cp) is in {Ll, Lu, Lo, Nd, Lm, Mn, Mc}
>
> ...i.e. both Ll and Lm are accepted, this change should NOT have any impact
> on IDNA2008.
>
> So I am not as worried as I was when I first saw that Gc was proposed to be
> changed for twelve(!) characters!!!
>
>   Patrik
>
> On 4 apr 2011, at 03.29, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>
> > FYI to the IDNA list. Could somebody from the Unicode side tell us what
> the effects are on IDNA2008, if any?
> >
> > Regards,    Martin.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Public Review Issue #181: Changing General Category of Twelve
> Characters
> > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:36:39 -0700
> > From: announcements at unicode.org
> > Reply-To: root at unicode.org
> > To: announcements at unicode.org
> >
> > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review
> and
> > comment. Details are on the following web page:
> >
> >    http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/
> >
> > Review periods for the new items close on May 2, 2011.
> >
> > Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
> Briefly,
> > the new issue is:
> >
> >
> > The UTC has decided to change the general category of twelve characters,
> and
> > is requesting public feedback on the proposed changes. Details of the
> > proposal and the list of affected characters are in the background
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