- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:00:06 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:18 PM 10/9/96, James Clark wrote: >At 10:48 09/10/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >>>There is the problem, that I discovered following the pointer that you >>>provided me, that not all of the character entities have an equivalent >>>in Unicode. I've only skimmed over this issue so far, so I don't have >>>complete information, but I think it is still an issue. >> >>We need SDATA internal entities for precisely the reason given >>here. > >Why can't we use the private use zone in 10646 for this? As a user (or developer) I would prefer that characters not in the reference character set be identified by mnemonic strings rather than by numbers. If the character is not on my local system, at least I have a name that someone thought was indicative of the character in question. With a private-use character code I know nothing other than that I don't know how to render it. I might even have a local convention for private-use that conflicts with the one in the document. Private use should be private, and XML must be useful for interchange as well. I think of SDATA as the "alt" attribute of character sets. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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