- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:32:05 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
If the Unicode consortium (well, actually the president, I suppose) wishes to answer a question about which there is considerable disagreement with a very short note in the style "Roma locuta est", I _still_ think the ISO wording in ISO 8859-1 is definitive and clear. And ISO 8859-1 is far more widely known and supported than Unicode so far. And the very idea of having an invisible character (or, rather, unpredictably visible or invisible character) in a character set is strange. Can Unicode consortium really declare an ISO 8859-1 graphic character invisible? Just by saying how things are, with no rational arguments or discussion of contrary arguments presented? If it does, should anyone care? Well, the _theoretical_ discussion is rather futile, since soft hyphen has never been implemented in Web browsers in the way Unicode suggests and probably never will. Even if it were, it would contribute ridiculously little to the solution of hyphenation problems. My suggestion is simply that people should stop nagging about browsers not implementing something that is neither de facto nor de iure standard. Just de ficto standard. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/%7ejkorpela/
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