Rick Jelliffe writes: >Personally, I can see no great value in allowing anything other > than [01-9] as DIGIT in SGML and XML. It just seems to complicate >things, and IMHO is a spurious and unthinking kind of i18n. >[01-9] conveys all the meaning needed, and everyone understands it. > >Making the ideograph numbers into SGML/XML DIGITs means that users >of native-language markup will be forced to use second-best terms, >or to spell out kanji in kana, for many common words. I completely and very strongly agree with Rick. Fortunately, the current draft assumes the idegraphic character representing digits as ideographic characters rather than digits, right? I found that [#xFF10-#xFF19] /* Fullwidth digits */ are allowed as digits. Since the compatibility zone has no place in markups, this should be removed, anyway. (I should have noticed this.) Murata, Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: 044-812-7230 Fax: 044-812-7231 E-mail: murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jpReceived on Wednesday, 11 June 1997 21:31:09 EDT
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