Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by the_mitsuhiko on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:59AM
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Words have meanings. "deprecated" has a very specific meaning in Unicode and it does not apply to this code point. A lot of characters we use on a daily are marked <compat>.
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This is not a codepoint in daily use. It never was outside of those few legacy encodings. If it is not deprecated, it is not so because it never was in common use in the first place. The concept of the ij/IJ as a single codepoint is deprecated, regardless of the technical classification in Unicode.
If you are claiming that 0x0132 is a codepoint in common use or required for correctly spelled Dutch, you are mistaken.
Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by the_mitsuhiko on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:41AM
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> If you are claiming that 0x0132 is a codepoint in common use or required for correctly spelled Dutch, you are mistaken.
I made no comment in support or opposition of that. I cannot talk to that as I’m not familiar with either Dutch or that letter. However there are many compat characters in Unicode and there are incredibly few deprecated ones so I was addressing the deprecation claim (and what I believe is a misuse of the term letter). You’re interpreting things into my replies that just aren’t there.
Compat characters are very useful and even if they are not stored all the time, they often show up in text processing in memory for better glyph selection.