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Unicode Consortium Info

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• Subject: Unicode Consortium Info
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:09:51 -0400

In case anyone is interested in where their tasty Unicode characters
come from:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rmcgowan-unicode-procs-03.txt

For those concerned about changes to Unicode character handling, this
bit is especially interesting:
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Once published, each version of the Unicode Standard is absolutely
stable and will never be changed retroactively. Implementations or
specifications that refer to a specific version of the Unicode Standard
can rely upon this stability. If future versions of such
implementations or specifications upgrade to a future version of the
Unicode Standard, then some changes may be necessary.

Property values of characters, such as directionality for the Unicode
Bidi algorithm, may be changed between versions of the standard in some
circumstances. As less-well documented characters and scripts are
encoded, the exact character properties and behavior may not be well
known at the time the characters are first encoded. As more experience
is gathered in implementing the newly encoded characters, adjustments
in the properties may become necessary. This re-working is kept to a
minimum. New and old versions of the relevant property tables are made
available on the Consortium's web site.
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Simon St.Laurent
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