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Re: (off-topic?)Re: XML character sets: a proposal

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:52:35 GMT
Message-Id: <199609161452.OAA12541@wiley.EBT.COM>
To: ricko@allette.com.au
CC: bbauma1@cs.umbc.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org 
>And the issue of user-defined characters is irrelevent unless there is a
>mechanism for accessing their glyphs over the Web.  Until there is, there is
>no point trying to allow for them in XML.

I disagree. I would like to see the ability to use user-defined
characters so that it would spur interest in font/glyph servers.

If I had more time, I'd write the software myself...
Received on Monday, 16 September 1996 10:54:16 EDT

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