- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:36:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > Using the word "glyph" instead of "character", where appropriate, > obviously does not improve the readability of the specification. > However, not using the word "glyph" makes that part simply incorrect for > a large number of people whose culture has the disadvantage of being > ignored by the leading technological powers. I can understand that, and > I can understand that this distinction is "pedantry" to you because you > never see it in practice. All I have to say is that it is very sad. The point is that implementors aren't confused by this particular case, and they would probably be _more_ confused if we used "glyph". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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