On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 5:35 PM David Starner via Unicode <
unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Shawn Steele via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> IMO, since it's unlikely that anyone expects
> that they can transmit a NUL through an arbitrary channel, unlike a
> random private use
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Shawn Steele via Unicode
wrote:
> Which leads us to the key. The desire is for a character that has no public
> meaning, but has some sort of private meaning. In other words it has a
> private use. Oddly enough, there is a group of characters intended for
>
It's discardable outside of the context/process that created it.
For a receiving process there is a difference between "this character has a
meaning you don't understand" and "this character had a transitory meaning
that has been exhausted".
The first implies that it needs to be preserved and
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