Roozbeh Pournader wrote on 2001-05-11 16:02 UTC:
> This list is usually a supporter of 10646 and Unicode, but it deviates in
> some cases. I remember these two cases, which has been really important
> for me:
>
> 1. Not recommending the usage of U+2028 nad U+2029, Line and Paragraph
> Separators (I can't remember the reason).
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/1999-09/msg00079.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod
> 2. Allowing 5 and 6-byte UTF-8, which Unicode 3.1 forbids.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#ucsutf
Neither of these is a deviation of ISO 10646, which has a somewhat
broader scope than Unicode and is (at least in the context of
communication with ISO 6429 terminals) the preferred reference.
Markus
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