- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:52:52 -0400
- To: dgd@cs.bu.edu
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>No, my point was that the set of possible character references is an open >set, and that numbers are never preferable to names, absent a well-defined >place to look up the number. (Private use does not solve that problem, >since all I can do is look it up and be told that it's officially >undefined.) Hey, I can point you to a unicode definition of where TENGWAR >LETTER A might appear in the private use set. But even if I knew nothing of >unicode that description is a lot more useful than any arbitrary code >value. This is an important point: too many applications treat characters as numbers, instead of as characters. One of the most important properties of a character is it's name...
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