> From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:00:19 +0200 > Cc: li bo <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > 2011/10/10 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>: > >> what's the meaning of 'appropriate Newline Functions' and 'higher-level > >> protocol paragraph determination'? > > > > Newline Function (NLF) is described in Section 5.8 of Unicode. > > Higher-level protocols are described in section 4.3 of UAX#9. In a > > nutshell, your application can have its own ideas of what begins and > > what ends a paragraph, and you are allowed to use those rules instead > > of what P3 says. > > For me I interpret the sentence as including all other non-plain text > mechanisms available in various file formats or interchange protocols, > such as HTML.
I agree, but UAX#9 doesn't really say where "appropriate Newline Functions" end and "higher-level protocols" begin. In general, my perception is that UBA deals with plain text, while higher-level protocols deal with structured text such as HTML. > My opinion is that the Unicode standard should avoid adding > constraints on those rich-text formats. It should only focus on the > content of plain-text elements I think it already does, but perhaps UAX#9 should say that more clearly.
