Poll 4: [FR-010-133][FR-021-013]: SG16 recommends resolving these comments by restricting all references to the Unicode Standard to the version that corresponds to the referenced version of ISO/IEC 10646.

• Attendees: 9 (1 abstention)
  

  SF	F	N	A	SA
  2	3	0	3	0

  No consensus.
  A: It doesn't benefit the community to reference a Unicode version that is outdated by the time the standard is published.
  

It doesn't help anyone to have a standard, a specification, that changes its meaning next week. There are controlled mechanisms

for choosing when to update to a newer specification, and all those lose their effective meaning if the meaning of the specification

changes from underneath everyone's feet.

This is why we shouldn't backport features, and why we shouldn't have the portable featureset change within a standard, including

the things we're based on, things we reference, whether normatively or otherwise, when their updates change how the language

works.

GCC 10 isn't going to get updates reflecting an updated Unicode standard. Neither is GCC 17 in the future, when the time comes that

it's a no-longer-supported version.