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

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:17:35 -0500
On 1/22/20 9:58 AM, Corentin Jabot wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 15:47, Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]
> <mailto: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.
> )

Are you suggesting some kind of edit to the meeting notes? Or is this
just further discussion spawned by them?

I don't think there is anything factually incorrect with Steve's
statement; just different interpretations of what stable means. I agree
that the Unicode stability policy gives us sufficient stability for our
concerns.

Tom.

> Tom.
>
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 06:23, Tom Honermann via SG16
>> <sg16_at_[hidden] <mailto: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] <mailto: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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