- From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:02:52 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu> wrote in news:003a01c318b7$83d21190$6501a8c0@blackie: > Except that removing them makes it exponentially more > difficult for a number of authors who want or need to stay > within the ASCII subset of UTF-8. Typing Α when you need > it is a nobrainer; having to look up the Unicode number for > each non-ASCII character you enter is a *real* pain. If you *regularly* use the alpha character, it's ~no more difficult to remember α than α[1]. And, if you *don't* regularly use the alpha character, you would have to look it up anyway. > There's the invariable "You need a better tool" responses, but > such always bring very loud screams from those just amputated. Well, hand-authoring isn't as common as it once were, and I don't think it's worth keeping character entities just because of this. And it's not like we're removing the *possibility* to write non- ASCII characters. You can still write all ISO 10646 characters using numeric character references, or just directly. If you're going to write a lot of non-ASCII XHMTL 2 text using ASCII keyboards, you *will* be much better of using better tools (or a different keyboard, or both). [1] I (only) speak from personal experience. I regularly use en-dashes, ellipsis and smileys, and write –, … and ☺ without even thinking about it. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer http://blogg.huftis.org/
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