- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:41:14 +0100
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
aloha! i decided to forwarded the following post to wai-xtech in order to ascertain if the creation of a homogeneous set of XML entity names across vocabularies has ramifications for assistive technologies... http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ in particular, does an AT need to know how to interpret character entities directly? to use a legacy example from HTML4x (in which character entities are contained in a DTD), does an AT need to be able to identify " as a quote, so that any switching the user has set to distinguish a quote is invoked when the character entity is encountered, or is this strictly a back-plane issue: does an AT receive and deliver to the user what the UA interprets a specific character entity as, or will this effect the alternative rendering of documents using character entity sets, and if so, what stake does the WAI have in this effort? is it merely a case of ATs needing to fully support unicode, or at least the discrete set outlined in: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ thanks for any enlightenment you can provide, gregory. ------------------------------------------------------ It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. -- James Thurber ------------------------------------------------------ Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus ------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded Message ----------- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> To: public-xhtml2@w3.org Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 01:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Subj: ⟨ and ⟩ entities Hi, There is an effort underway (coordinated by David Carlisle) to create a homogeneous set of entity names across vocabularies: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ There are two entities in this group, ⟨ and ⟩, which for historical reasons and compatibility with HTML4 are currently mapped to characters that have a canonical mapping to CJK fullwidth characters (U+2329 and U+232A, mapping to U+3008 and U+3009). As part of the HTML5 work, the HTML5 spec was updated to map these two entities to more appropriate characters (U+27E8 and U+27E9). Will XHTML2 have entities? If so, have you any opinion on whether ⟨ or ⟩ should be part of the XHTML2 set of entities, and what values they should have? Any input would be very helpful, so that we can keep these entities with a consistent meaning across any language that uses entity names. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' ------- End of Forwarded Message -------
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