RE: [idn] Nameprep-01 released

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 5:32 PM +0100 1/16/01, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
>The mapping list at the end is nearly unreviewable, since it does
>not contain the character names (as comments), just the codes.
>Compare Unicode tables, which have character names as comments
>(at least).

You are quite correct. In fact, for the mappings from section 3.1 and 
3.2, I had to take out the character names. We chose to do this 
because, with character names, many lines ran over 80 columns and 
caused wrapping problems for some readers.

>   I don't think it is each revewer's responsability
>to produce name comments (or whatever) to be able to review the
>document.

This is a fair criticism. I'll generate the tables with the names in 
the columns separately from the draft itself, and ask Marc put them 
on the WG's web site. Look for them later today or tomorrow.

>The "prohibited character[s] list", list code points, many of
>which are *not* characters, but are specifically "not-a-character"s,
>or are reserved for UTF-16 ("surrogates"; which are not characters
>either).

Yes: that is what sections 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6 describe. Are you saying 
that we should rename the appendix to "prohibited codepoints", or is 
there some other issue you are pointing towards?

>The "unassigned character[s] list" is quite obviously an
>"(as yet) unassigned code points list" (which is hard to review
>since no character names can be made available). It also uses
>6 hexadecimal digits for the BMP range, which is (will not) be
>an approved notation according to Unicode and 10646.

Good catch; I'll fix that in the -02 draft.

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