From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 12:17:28 CST
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Francois Yergeau wrote:
> > Actually, he is doing exactly that: disregarding the clear
> > statements of today's standards because he thinks they will change! ...
> >
> > However, my point remains: today's standard is RFC 2279, not Yergeau's
> > draft. Whatever might happen to the draft, today's standard does include
> > the 5- and 6-byte sequences, so pretending otherwise is inappropriate.
>
> Err, that's contradictory! Am I disregarding the standard or just telling
> it like it is?
*You* are disregarding today's Unicode standard and today's announced
intent of 10646, in your current draft for a revised RFC 2279. Since
your charter (I'm using "you" in a somewhat generic sense here) is to
revise RFC 2279, conformance to RFC 2279 is not a requirement for you.
*We*, however, can't assume that you will come to your senses :-), so we
should take RFC 2279 as written rather than hoping that its successor will
fix this. Your current draft might be adopted as a standard more or less
intact, or it might not, and the timing is hard to predict.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net