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Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 11:23:31 -0800
Message-Id: <199611301931.LAA17662@greece.it.earthlink.net>
To: "Peter Flynn" <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>, "Jonathan Rosenne" <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>
Cc: <www-html@w3.org>, <www-international@w3.org>, <unicode@unicode.org> 
Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
> According to the rules, a character cannot be deleted from UCS. So it
has to
> stay with us.

Sort of like chicken pox and herpes. It seems a shame to orphan this
character. How about a new word:

    [Ydieresis]ikes!

    An emotional response to the workings of the ISO.
    (See also "[Ydieresis]owsa!")
 
David Perrell
Received on Saturday, 30 November 1996 15:07:19 GMT

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