- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 12:23:55 CST
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> From: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak) > > (a) XML will declare a number of entities automatically. > > (e) The predefined entities shall include all the entities recently > approved by the HTML ERB for inclusion in the "Cougar" DTD. This > means, basically, all of the HTML 3.2 entities plus all of the ISO > entities for which characters exist in the Adobe Symbol font set, > which is supported across Windows, X11, and Macintosh platforms. > > Decision: Yes. Dissenting: Bray, Clark. Abstaining: Maler. > > Thus, the list of ISO entities predefined in XML is as follows (list > courtesy of Bob Stayton, SCO): > > [...list elided...] I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to start a "but what about my favorite entity" sort of discussion, and I'll be okay with any decision, but by way of an FYI, here are by far the 4 most used entity refs in your average Adept text document (not counting < and & for escaping purposes as already covered in XML by earlier decisions): “, ” (left double quote and right double quote) since Adept automatically puts in your standard (as far as publishing goes) directional double quotes when the user hits the " key. These two entity refs appear in practically every document created by Adept. —, – since Adept automatically puts in your standard (as far as publishing goes) appropriate dash type when the user hits the - key twice or when they hit the - key between two digits. The quotes are in "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN" and the dashes in "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Publishing//EN". I note that none of these four are in the set Jon distributed.
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