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Re: [SG16] Renaming universal-character-name

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:34:59 -0500
On 2/26/20 5:15 AM, Corentin Jabot via SG16 wrote:
> +sg16
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 11:12, Corentin <corentin.jabot_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:corentin.jabot_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> To use terminology more aligned with Unicode and to avoid
> confusion with character names - which are for example used by
> P1097R2 - Named character escapes, I would like to rename
> mechanically *universal-character-name* to
> *universal-character-codepoint*
>
I was tempted to do this as part of P2029 (Proposed resolution for core
issues 411, 1656, and 2333; numeric and universal character escapes in
character and string literals), but decided it was too much to bite off
as part of that effort. I do think a rename is in order.

Tom.

> Is that something coerce would be willing to do? If so, what would
> be the best way to do it? Paper targeting core?
>
> Regards,
>
> Corentin
>
>


Received on 2020-02-26 14:37:43