- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:49:19 +0000
- To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- CC: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> I did an investigation into the set of characters that are used in English family names and the length of English family names. I found that 99.999% of all English family names are no longer than 100 characters. If that is the case, why would I not impose a limit of 100 characters? Why do you want to reject valid names, even if they only occur in 0.001% of cases? And why do you want to write software that only accepts English family names - it seems remarkably xenophobic to me. It's like saying the character "ø" occurs in only 0.001% of family names, and they're all immigrants anyway, so you don't really care about spelling their names correctly. Michael Kay Saxonica
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