- From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:48:59 -0400
- To: <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 3:21 AM 6/12/97, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >The question is not whether they are letters or digits in limbo, but whether > they appear in common words. >Personally, I can see no great value in allowing anything other than >[01-9] as DIGIT in SGML and XML. > [01-9] conveys all the meaning needed, and everyone understands it. I agree. The proposal to add these characters as additional namestart characters makes a lot of sense. But adding them specifically to DIGIT makes very little, unless they transliterate directly to base-10 digits in Arabic numerals. If they're not Arabic digits (with different-from-Western-norm glyphs associated), then it makes no more sense to add them than to add X,V,I,etc. so one could make roman numerals. Wouldn't it be exciting to be able to use "&#xvi;" as a synonym for ""? Glah! :-( Wouldn't that be fun for a developer? Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@acm.org
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