What is a punctuation character?

[Colin Paul Adams]

    Iavor> report?  My understanding is that the intention is that the
    Iavor> alphabet is unicode codepoints (sometimes referred to as
    Iavor> unicode characters).

Unicode characters are not the same as Unicode codepoints. What we want
is Unicode characters.

We don't want to be able to write a Unicode codepoint, as that would
permit writing half of a surrogate pair, which is malformed Unicode.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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