- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:24:21 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: > On May 23, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > > > > > lang U+027E8 > > > > rang U+027E9 > > > > > > What is the rationale for this? > > > > As I understand it the original mappings were CJK characters, they're > > not the right ones for angle brackets. > > I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning. Maybe U+3008 is not the right > one for some uses of angle brackets, but it is the right one for other > uses - exactly for the same ones for which U+2329 was correct. If > someone needs a named entity for mathematical left angle bracket, they > can suggest a new name, but changing the semantics of an existing name > doesn't seem appropriate. > > The mathematical use of this character is not even common enough to > argue that it is the most important case (I'm not sure if it has any > importance at all, since in mathematics, such brackets usually need to > grow to surround multi-line content, something that won't happen when > rendering HTML). There were numerous requests for this change and it was made some time ago -- does the change actually break anything? My understanding is that the original lang and rang codepoints were CJK characters only because no better characters existed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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