<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2016, at 3:54 PM, João Pinheiro via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On 23 Jun 2016, at 20:43, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" class="">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">That's cool, although my preferred solution would be more closely aligned with UAX #31: overtly disallow the glyphs in Table 4 (instead of ignoring them) except in the specific scenarios for ZWJ and ZWNJ identified in UAX #31, then afterwards internally represent the identifier as its NFC-normalized string.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Explicitly disallowing them was my initial idea, but I think it would end up being a confusing error for users to encounter. Ignoring the invisible characters and leaving it up to a linter to remove them is less likely to cause confusion for users.</span><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Allowing invisibles has already resulted in being able to do things like this which is intensely confusing to say the very least. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="D44835C2-D750-4EFC-A7A7-30BEC1419553" height="192" width="455" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:E74CD330-2182-42A7-AE99-498C9F0A1E14@apple.com" class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Josh</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>