- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:13:04 -0700
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 07:03 PM 10/22/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >>So: what applications are going to become severely XML-impaired >>if we lack the nice out-of-band SDATA signaling mechanism? > >While you could argue that gaiji are not really our concern, it >is important to note that in Japan, many, many gaiji exist. Footnote: gaiji are ad-hoc kanji; that is to say, brand-new Chinese-style characters created for proper name or corporate use. [Why can't we do this in English? Just 26 characters is so, y'know, pedestrian, and limits *my* creative expression every day.] Gaiji are not exactly ubiquitous, but quite commercially important. Sigh.
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