- From: Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:37:55 -0800
- To: davep@acm.org, lee@sq.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Dave Peterson asks:
| Does Unicode or 10646 really define "<" and ">" as left and right
| angle brackets? In most of the character sets I've seen, they are
| less-than and greater-than signs. And those character sets that
| mention angle brackets treat them as different characters. (Not
| to mention that they are usually associated with different glyphs
| in any glyph-rich font.)
Taking only <, Unicode has
003C Less-than sign
2039 Single left-pointing angle quotation mark
= left pointing single guillemet [hyphenation sic]
2329 Left-pointing angle bracket = BRA
3008 Left angle bracket (in "CJK symbols and punctuation")
[a case of failure to unify with 2329?]
| Same question about "`". Really just a stand-alone accent?
That involves Unicode's theory of combining characters; I'll leave
the answer to Unicode specialists.
Regards,
Terry Allen Electronic Publishing Consultant tallen[at]sonic.net
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Received on Friday, 14 March 1997 11:37:09 UTC