- From: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
- To: phoffman@imc.org
- Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Paul, > At 10:17 PM -0400 4/21/02, Francois Yergeau wrote: > >What about "the UTF-16 accessible repertoire"? > > In the standard for UTF-8? Yuck. > > It would be nice of the Unicode Consortium would come up with a > snappy name for it. Well, I don't know whether you'd consider it a "snappy" name, but that is the "Unicode scalar value": 0000..D7FF, E000..10FFFF. I'd be in favor of just referring to the range of code points 0000..10FFFF, without further deep-ending. And I don't like any application of the term "repertoire" here, because that has an orthogonal application to the repertoire of abstract characters encoded. Thus the "repertoire" for Unicode changes with each extension for a new version. The range of accessible code points, however, does not, and constitutes an architectural constant. --Ken
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