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Re: [SG16] Polls for named unicode escape sequences

From: Steve Downey <sdowney_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:22:34 -0400
The 20th works for me.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 19:19 Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Does the 20th work for you? I stated below intent to reschedule the 27th
> meeting to the 20th.
>
> Tom.
>
> On Sep 29, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Steve Downey <sdowney_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 
> I'm scheduled to test in iaido (Japanese sword) [I'm not allowed an actual
> sword yet] on the 27th, so that might be complicated.
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 17:44 Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Sounds good. I'll put this on the agenda for our meeting on the ... oh,
>> it's complicated.
>>
>> We are currently scheduled to meet October 13th and 27th, but both of
>> those dates are problematic because of the NDC (week of October 13th) and
>> CppCon (week of October 27th) conferences. So, we need to make some changes.
>>
>> I rescheduled the October 13th meeting to October 6th (next week) earlier
>> today; I'll communicate that separately and with an agenda shortly.
>>
>> I would like to also reschedule the October 27th meeting for October 20th
>> and put this paper (P2071) on its agenda.
>>
>> There are no meetings scheduled for November yet because I only scheduled
>> through the next daylight savings time change (November 7th). I'm planning
>> to schedule those soon and intend to stick to our 2nd and 4th weeks of the
>> month plan.
>>
>> Please let me know ASAP about any concerns with the above.
>>
>> Tom.
>>
>> On 9/29/21 3:50 PM, Steve Downey via SG16 wrote:
>>
>> In order to make progress on wording I'd like to have some polls taken
>> for named unicode escape sequences, since we've learned and changed a few
>> things since the papers were first written.
>>
>> 1)
>> In light of progress on D2290 Delimited escape sequences adding the form
>> \u{ simple-hexadecimal-digit-sequence } to universal-character-name, named
>> escape sequence should be an alternate form of universal-character-name,
>> rather than only for literals.
>>
>> u-char:
>> digit
>> nondigit
>>
>> u-char-sequence:
>> u-char
>> u-char-sequence u-char
>>
>> universal-character-name:
>> add \U{ u-char-sequence }
>>
>> Add text to say that u-char-sequence must match a name or alias in the
>> UCD.
>>
>>
>> 2)
>> In light of the implementation experience using the Unicode standard
>> rules for matching names producing a compact data form with fast lookup,
>> propose that be adopted rather than mandating CAPITAL only exact match
>> rules.
>>
>> Note that many online sources of codepoint names are lax about exact
>> match.
>>
>>
>>
>>

Received on 2021-09-29 19:22:49