- From: <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:04:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dsr@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
There's been some discussion of additions to the entities table in the Cougar draft <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Cougar/HTML.dtd>. As the maintainer of the terminfo databases, and co-maintainer of ncurses, I'd like to urge that the special characters of the curses ACS series also be included in the standard entities. This would have major functional and portability benefits, enabling one of the most widely used extension-glyph aets to be mapped directly to HTML. These characters are: upper left corner ACS_ULCORNER lower left corner ACS_LLCORNER upper right corner ACS_URCORNER lower right corner ACS_LRCORNER tee pointing right ACS_LTEE tee pointing left ACS_RTEE tee pointing up ACS_BTEE tee pointing down ACS_TTEE horizontal line ACS_HLINE vertical line ACS_VLINE large plus or crossover ACS_PLUS scan line 1 ACS_S1 scan line 9 ACS_S9 diamond ACS_DIAMOND checker board (stipple) ACS_CKBOARD degree symbol ACS_DEGREE plus/minus ACS_PLMINUS bullet ACS_BULLET arrow pointing left ACS_LARROW arrow pointing right ACS_RARROW arrow pointing down ACS_DARROW arrow pointing up ACS_UARROW board of squares ACS_BOARD lantern symbol ACS_LANTERN solid square block ACS_BLOCK The entity recommendations should note that the forms-drawing characters (ACS_ULCORNER...ACS_PLUS) should be fixed-width, even when the rest of the font is proportionately spaced. -- <a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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