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.
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.