- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:14:50 -0500
- To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
>Because of duplicated shape of 'A' for Latin and Greek capital >letter 'A' and alpha, and because of duplicated encoding of Big5, >encoding information, in general, is no fix for unique conversion >from shape on a paper to internal code. Nor should there be. People map from a glyph to a *character*, which is quite different to a character code. I have enough trouble mapping some glyphs to characters. God forbid that I have to memorize the character codes as well!
Received on Thursday, 8 February 1996 02:17:34 UTC