> -----Original Message-----
> From: RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja@inet.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:48 AM
> To: James Seng
> Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: [idn] Re: alpha v0.3
>
>
> At 02:02 02-02-00 , James Seng wrote:
> >Characters mentioned in this document are identified by
> their position
> >in the Unicode character set. The notation U+12AB, for example,
> >indicates the character at position 12AB (hexadecimal) in the Unicode
> >character set. Note that the use of this notation is not an
> indication
> >of a requirement to use Unicode.
>
> It would be better to reference characters by position within
> ISO-10646,
> IMHO. 10646 includes characters missing from UNICODE, for example.
Well, that depends on EXACTLY which version is meant.
1. There is a standard way of referencing Unicode 1.1/10646-1:1993
code points, and another for referencing codepoints in Unicode
2.0/10646-1:1993+AMD1-9 and later. We only need contemplate
the latter. (This was due to the Hangul rearrangement.)
2. Unicode 3.0 and the, admittedly not final yet, ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
have *exactly* the same character/code point allocation (unless some
disaster strikes the second edition of 10646-1).
Kind regards
/kent k