- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:44:53 -0400
- To: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips@webmethods.com>
- Cc: bidi@prognathous.mail-central.com, Jony Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>, "'Mark Davis'" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>, www-international@w3.org, Shmuel Yair <yshmuel@microsoft.com>
Addison Phillips [wM] scripsit: > It may be the case that the character sequence isn't optimal, but I think > that is a quibble at best. Users generally do not care what the character > sequence in memory is, only with the results on the display (the graphemes). I agree with most of what you are saying, but not this bit. Word processing/ typesetting users may only care about appearance, but people who have to search or sort or count or otherwise *process* text do care very much about (the consequences of) the encoding. -- Do what you will, John Cowan this Life's a Fiction jcowan@reutershealth.com And is made up of http://www.reutershealth.com Contradiction. --William Blake http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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