Re: Universal Character Names, v2

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> > - I have not decided to deviate from the C and C++ standards for
> >   character tests. Reviewers commented that they dislike the approach
> >   taken by the standards committees, and that the relevant Unicode
> >   specification should be taken into account instead. I disagree, as I
> >   consider the approach of giving explicit lists quite reasonable.
> >   More importantly, I think that standards conformance should be
> >   valued quite highly unless specific user demands require to
> >   ignore or extend the standards; this is not the case in the
> >   specific issue.
> 
> ... which I disagree with.  I am rejecting this patch until you
> implement support for Unicode as she is spoke, which means UAX#15
> including normalization, not whatever nonsense is in the C and C++
> standards.

I'm with you from the point of view of not having C and C++ be
different, which IMO is pointlessly gratuitous.  I have no strong
opinion either way on support for the lot.  However, what is your
opinion about leading digits and other such weirdness?
Do you intend to do any sanity checking?

Neil.