Re: Motion 46 -- Vincent's objections
On 2013 Jul 20, at 06:03, Michel Hack wrote:
> Regarding interval notation in right-to-left locales,
> Vincent Lefèvre replied to me:
>>> I know that numeric literals are witten in the same order as for
>>> left-to-right scripts, but what about the order of bounds in the
>>> pair that denotes an interval? Is the low bound the first or the
>>> leftmost element?
>>
>> The first, but I would say that the full interval literal would be
>> written left-to-right.
>
> Huh? I meant "first" in the direction of the script;...
>
>> Otherwise the first character would be "]", not "[".
>
> Right -- the outermost character...
>
>> One may also wonder a BOM would be accepted as the first character...
>
> Bill Of Materials???
Bank of Montreal?
All this seems a good reason to say that 1788 assumes the default locale; also that as 754§5.12 says,
"Issues of character codes (ASCII, Unicode, etc.) are not defined by this standard".
John Pryce