- From: Cyril <cyril@chat.ru>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 03:48:01 +0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
_________________________________________________________________ _____ REPRESENTATION OF CHARACTERS IN HUMAN READABLE MANNER______ (It is continuation of previous messages with the subject Symbolic Name For Every Character.) GENERAL As I have disclosed it, I am rather proposing alternative possibility in HTML to represent any letter in human readable manner. That is when you see HTML-source you could easily read any content which is written with non-US- ASCII characters. Presenting characters in human readable manner seems me convenient and very reliable. (As I think now when I stated (in my previous messages) that HTML is US-ASCII-based I meant that all markups (i. e. tags, attribute names, and other structural and presentational HTML-document information which don't present the document content) were made of US-ASCII characters. And in my view, it is not bad.) At this moment, I see several approaches to representation of characters in human readable manner. They are as follows. SYMBOLIC NAME is such as described in HTML Specification and in previous messages with subject Symbolic Name For Every Character. TRANSLITERATION In my view, for phonic languages, this method is better than Symbolic Name method. But for logogram languages like Chines, mathematical, chemical, etc, I think it isn’t because the method is based on phonetic sounds. (P.S. I have just received several e-letters about my previous messages. Now I am reading them. I need a time for it.)
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