Ar 13:46 -0700 1999-07-02, scríobh Edward Cherlin:
>Anyway, one of the proposed advantages of an XML scheme is that it can be
>made as general as the subject matter allows and requires.
I do not like the assumption here that the burden of _programming_ should
be left to the poor academic users who want to do their philology with
_characters_ not pseudo-characters. I don't mean to overstate the case, but
even so.... phonetic entities are not markup.
>You could set it
>up to handle all of the variations of superscripts, small caps, and much
>more, once. Then you could create hundreds, nay, thousands and myriads of
>new combinations without further ado, and without having to come back to
>the Unicode and ISO comittees each time for the protracted process of
>registration.
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 are ***NOT*** registries.
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