Ted Hopp <ted at newslate dot com> wrote: > From the Unicode Glossary: > > "Deprecated. A coded character whose use is strongly discouraged." > > From http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/, section on Unicode > Character Database: > > "Deprecated Characters. Two Khmer characters, U+17A3 khmer independent > vowel qaq and U+17D3 khmer sign bathamasat, were deprecated. Four > others are strongly discouraged." > > Is it just me, or is the language from the web site confusing? (I > know--it's just me. :-))
No, the language is confusing. "Deprecated" means "strongly discouraged in a formal way," but for some reason, Unicode has chosen to insert the concept of "informal strong discouragement" between the comparatively well-defined "discouraged" and "deprecated." This became an issue, for me anyway, early this year during the discussions on whether to deprecate the Plane 14 language tags. The Unicode Consortium decided not to label these characters with a formal "Deprecated" tag, but to continue to refer to them as "strongly discouraged." I once thought I understood the difference, but I'm not so sure now. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
