Asmus wrote: > Both spellings, with and without the intervening space, can be found, but > Unicode uses the term only without the space.
This didn't sound right to me, so I checked the Glossary, and it lists the term as two words with a space. http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_point -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell -----Original Message----- From: "Asmus Freytag" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/1/2013 23:43 To: "Costello, Roger L." <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Terminology: does the term "codepoint" apply to non-Unicode character sets? On 1/1/2013 12:43 PM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Does the term "codepoint" apply to non-Unicode character sets? > > For example, are there codepoints in iso-8859-1? In Windows-1252? > > /Roger > > > The short answer is "yes". The term code point was in use for locations in IBM code pages long before Unicode was created; in the context of other standards, slightly different terms were in use, such as "code location". (Windows-1252, while created by Microsoft, was registered in the IBM code page collection at the time, which assigned to it the number 1252, so the use of "code point" for that character set is definitely an extension of the earlier usage). It's worthwhile to make sure that if you operate in the context of some other standard, that you make sure you follow the terminology as defined there, but for general use, the word code point is not tied to or reserved for Unicode (but make sure you are clear which character set you are talking about). Both spellings, with and without the intervening space, can be found, but Unicode uses the term only without the space. A./
