- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:42:04 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
- cc: Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <emmanuelle@teleline.es>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Yep, much smarter. I will ask the i18n folks, but I think we are looking for "letters" or "characters" not "glyphs". (This could be in the Character Model for the WWW spec that they are working on - http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod I believe, although it is another of my notorious hand-typed URI's coming from memory). I think the "pictures of words" bit should go back to the WCAG group. Cheers Charles On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: Please don't allow something to be both "x" and "non-x" at the same time. The logical inconsistency is just too much to simply bury in the glossary. Here's a straw man definition: "Text is any content encoded in Unicode-style letters and/or glyphs. Non-text is anything else. Someone who is more up on RFCs and the like can fill in a more technically precise term for "letters". If this were 1983 I'd be saying "ASCII characters." --Kynn -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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