On 1/2/2013 9:00 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
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
OK. There are a few terms where Unicode doesn't use the space. I could
have sworn this was one of them, looks like I got it backwards.
A./
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From: Asmus Freytag <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: 1/1/2013 23:43
To: Costello, Roger L. <mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[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./
