Deprecated characters?

Mark Davis mark.davis at icu-project.org
Thu Jul 17 17:05:21 CEST 2008


No it doesn't cause a problem: deprecation does not remove characters -- it
just discourages their use.
Mark

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:

> I see the following proposal from UTC.
>
> Question: Some of the codepoints that either are, or are suggested to
> be, deprecated are PVALID according to the tables document.
>
> Does that create any problems?
>
>    Patrik
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Rick McGowan <rick at unicode.org>
> > Date: on 16 jul 2008 23.24.07 GMT+02:00
> > To: unicode at unicode.org
> > Subject: Two New Public Review Issues: Replacement Characters and
> > Deprecated Characters
> >
> > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted two new issues for public
> > review and comment. Details are on the following web page:
> >
> >       http://www.unicode.org/review/
> >
> > Review periods for the new items close on August 4, 2008.
> >
> > Please see the above page for links to discussion and relevant
> > documents.
> > Briefly, the new issues are:
> >
> >
> > Public Review Issue #121, Recommended Practice for Replacement
> > Characters
> >
> > The Unicode Technical Committee has been requested to specify what the
> > recommended practice is for replacement characters in converting ill-
> > formed
> > subsequences. See the review document for further explanation:
> >       http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-121.html
> >
> >
> > Public Review Issue #122, Proposal for Additional Deprecated
> > Characters
> >
> > The Unicode Technical Committee is considering giving a number of
> > additional characters the Deprecated property. For more details, see
> > the
> > review document:
> >       http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-122.html
> >
> >
> >
> > If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post
> > them by
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> >
> >    http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html
> >
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> >
> > Regards,
> >       Rick McGowan
> >       Unicode, Inc.
> >
> >
>
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