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Re: [SG16] SG16 meeting summary for January 8th, 2020

From: Corentin Jabot <corentinjabot_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:58:30 +0100
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 15:47, Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 1/22/20 2:56 AM, Corentin Jabot via SG16 wrote:
>
> XID_Continue and XID_Start are, in fact, stable
> https://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
>
> Can you elaborate? My reading of the stability policy is that once a
> character has the XID_Start or XID_Continue property that it always will,
> but that policy doesn't state that (existing or new) characters that don't
> have those properties can't be granted them in the future.
>

Which is the stability we care about (and basically the only one Unicode
defines).
Identifiers cannot stop being identifiers, well formed code will remain
well-formed.

(original reply was in reference to :
Steve responded that they are derived properties and are not guaranteed to
be stable, but probably will be in practice.
)


> Tom.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 06:23, Tom Honermann via SG16 <
> sg16_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> The summary for the SG16 meeting held January 8th, 2020 is now
>> available. For those that attended, please review and suggest corrections:
>> - https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings#january-8th-2020
>>
>> The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 22nd, from
>> 3:30-5:00pm EST. An invitation (from invite_at_[hidden]) has been
>> sent to the mailing list and prior attendees. The draft agenda is:
>> - P1885R0: Naming Text Encodings to Demystify Them
>> <https://wg21.link/p1885>
>> - Follow up on recent mailing list discussions.
>> - Identify and discuss intended use cases.
>> - P2020R0: Locales, Encodings and Unicode <https://wg21.link/p2020>
>> - General discussion, corrections, suggestions, etc...
>>
>> For any new attendees: The meetings are video conferences conducted via
>> BlueJeans. If you are planning to attend, please test your system by
>> visiting https://bluejeans.com/111 before the scheduled meeting time.
>>
>> Tom.
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