Re: Hexadecimal in many scripts (ISO 14755)

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 11:51:51 EDT


Ar 07:18 -0700 1999-06-04, scríobh Alain:
>A 06:02 99-06-04 -0700, Markus Kuhn a écrit :
>>Hexadecimal numbers use the first 6 digits of the Latin alphabet to
>>represent digit values 10-15. ISO 14755 specifies a fall-back
>>hexadecimal keyboard entry method that allows to enter all Unicode
>>characters on any keyboard, and it requires that the first 6 letters
>>of whatever alphabet is represented on that keyboard are also accepted
>>as hexadecimal digits 10-15.
>
>Well, it is an option... if another script than the latin script is used
>indeed.
>
>Alain LaBonté
>Project Editor, ISO/IEC 14755

It sounds like a bad idea to me. All subsets of ISO/IEC 10646 must contain
ASCII, right?

--
Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.indigo.ie/egt
15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland
Guthán: +353 1 478-2597 ** Facsa: +353 1 478-2597 (by arrangement)
27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn;  Baile an Bhóthair;  Co. Átha Cliath; Éire



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:46 EDT