>What is a character? Without seriously considering this extremely >hard problem, an "infratstructure" for introducing more >characters will only make the problem worse. I have spent more time on this than I care to remember... >Some people want to introduce a character called Hashigo-Daga. The JIS >committee rejected it, saying that this is merely a variation of usual >Taka(i). (This is a debatable issue, but I agree with the committee.) >Clearly, if we continue to introduce more and more characters for >Hashigo-Daga, etc., full text search will become impossible. Note necessarily impossible, just more complicated for implementors. >Gaiji characters will cause problems if they are used without private >agreements. I would say "used without private agreement, or stdnardised semantic descriptions". If you have a *standard* way of telling epople what you mean, all will be well. >I would propose to introduce something like this: > > The private areas can not be used without some additional agreements > on their usage by the author and the recipients, > especially when XML is used over the Internet. I can agree to wording like this.Received on Tuesday, 3 June 1997 11:17:58 EDT
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