- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:22:39 +0100
- To: "Bert Bos" <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:40:53 +0100, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote: > If I remember correctly, the answer is that the two phrases "characters > above U+007F" and "characters U+00A1 and higher" mean the same thing, > because A1 is actually the first character above 7F. > > In more detail: > > Before Unicode 3, the code points between 80 and 9F didn't even have a > name. Now most of them have been given a name, but they remain > classified as control codes, not characters. Unicode says that the > meaning of control codes (the 65 code points 00-1F and 7F-9F) depends > on "a higher-level protocol," not on Unicode. > > CSS is such a higher-level protocol. It assigns meaning to 09, 0A, 0C > and OD, but does not use the other control codes. Per my understanding of Unicode the term characters includes all those. I believe it excludes surrogate code points only. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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