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Re: [SG16-Unicode] Draft of paper to update the unicode standard reference

From: JF Bastien <cxx_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 15:05:25 -0700
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:57 PM, <keld_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I qould like that we use the reference to ISO 10646 instead of the unicode
> inc. reference.
> I have advocated that for quite a long time now.
>

Either is fine by me, as long as the paper has a justification for not
following Unicode's own recommended guidance. Then we don't need to play
the bikeshed game each time we want to update that particular reference.



> Best regards
> keld
>
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:43:22PM +0000, Steve Downey wrote:
> > I've been told that some people believe there's a policy that ISO
> Standards
> > must cite other ISO Standards where those are available, which is why
> we're
> > citing the ISO copies of Unicode and ECMAScript. I can't find an actual
> > policy on this, though.
> > I'm willing to put in the Unicode.org preferred reference, with a
> fallback
> > to the ISO reference. My only fear is that too many choices will lead to
> > paralysis.
> >
> > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:44 PM JF Bastien <cxx_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > > The Unicode standard has guidance on how to cite it:
> > >
> > > http://www.unicode.org/versions/index.html#Citations
> > >
> > > It would be useful to link to this guidance (and follow it).
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Steve Downey <sdowney_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> https://github.com/steve-downey/sg16/blob/d10250/papers/D1025R0.md
> > >>
> > >> There are some formatting issues I will clean up, in particular
> changing
> > >> the links to not raw links, and moving the links down to a
> bibliography
> > >> section.
> > >>
> > >> Also adding a title at the top.
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Unicode mailing list
> > >> Unicode_at_[hidden]
> > >> http://www.open-std.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
> > >>
> > >>
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Unicode mailing list
> > Unicode_at_[hidden]
> > http://www.open-std.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
>
>

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