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Ken Beesley schreef:



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>> There is, of course, a Unicode name for \u000a,
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Peter Kleiweg wrote:

No, there isn't. Check
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf



OK. I see that for 000A there is not now an official Unicode name in
4.0, and that "LINE FEED (LF)" is an alias. Such an alias, shown in
uppercase letters, indicates that it _was_ the name of the character in
The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0. See The Unicode Standard 4.0, p. 415
("Aliases"). This seems odd. One intuitively assumes that any defined
Unicode character has a Unicode name.

Ken Beesley wrote:
> OK. I see that for 000A there is not now an official Unicode name in
> 4.0, and that "LINE FEED (LF)" is an alias. Such an alias, shown in
> uppercase letters, indicates that it _was_ the name of the character in
> The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0. See The Unicode Standard 4.0, p. 415
> ("Aliases"). This seems odd. One intuitively assumes that any defined
> Unicode character has a Unicode name.

Indeed, this intuition is wrong. Other Unicode characters that don't
have names are:
- surrogates (U+D800..U+DFFF); it is debatable whether these are
characters, though
- private use characters (U+E000..U+F8FF, U+F0000..U+FFFFD,
U+10000..U+10FFFD).

Regards,
Martin