- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 01:31:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-xhtml2@w3.org
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Hi, There is an effort underway (coordinated by David Carlisle) to create a homogeneous set of entity names across vocabularies: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ There are two entities in this group, ⟨ and ⟩, which for historical reasons and compatibility with HTML4 are currently mapped to characters that have a canonical mapping to CJK fullwidth characters (U+2329 and U+232A, mapping to U+3008 and U+3009). As part of the HTML5 work, the HTML5 spec was updated to map these two entities to more appropriate characters (U+27E8 and U+27E9). Will XHTML2 have entities? If so, have you any opinion on whether ⟨ or ⟩ should be part of the XHTML2 set of entities, and what values they should have? Any input would be very helpful, so that we can keep these entities with a consistent meaning across any language that uses entity names. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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