John> What kinds of interchange applications (still) use it?
I can't think of one off the top of my head, though I am sure it is still an
active concern in Japan.
John> The spec is not clear with respect to scope. It makes the point
John> that the chars are separators, not terminators. So if both U+2028
John> and U+2029 are present in the same file, what's the relationship
John> between lines and paragraphs? Commercial systems, as you say, treat
John> paragraphs as a higher level than line, even though that's not what
John> the standard says. <sigh>
It is funny in a way. Unicode was partially driven by commercial concerns.
Now, despite their own considered contributions to Unicode (which carried over
into ISO10646), some companies find themselves "re-interpreting" the standard
to meet their needs.
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