- From: John C Klensin <john+w3c@jck.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:42:09 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- cc: CSS WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
--On Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:06 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > John C Klensin scripsit: > >> (i) Unless there is general consensus that Unicode's attempt >> to introduce an unambiguous Line Separator in form of U+2028 >> has been a complete failure, > > I don't think there's any doubt: it is a complete failure. It > was a paradigm case of "There are N ways to do it, so we sit > down to set up a standard. Now there are N+1 ways to do it." That is consistent with how I read the direction of the wind. But I'm often in an isolated corner of things so didn't know how general the perception was. That leads to two questions: (1) Would it be helpful for this document to explicitly say "don't use U+2028 and, if you find it, convert it to something else"? (2) Has consideration been given to making an explicit statement in, e.g., Unicode 8.x that reflects your comment/conclusion above? At least 6.2/6.3 continue to recommend converting to LS (U+2028) and there do not appear to be any 7.0 changes in that area. thanks, john
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