On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 12:33 -0800 2002-02-03, Mark Davis wrote:
> >This has bitten more than a few people. For political reasons, having
> >to do with the synchronization of names to ISO 10646, the name fields
> >are empty for the control characters. That is because (at least in
> >theory) people could have other semantics for those characters.
>
> I would really favour challenging WG2 to accept reality and reference
> the glyphs and names at least informatively in 10646. I'd support it
> in committee.
> --
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
>
>
Monday, February 4, 2002
Cf. ISO 6603 (1989) "Documentaiton - Bibliographic control
characters" where among other control characters:
X'88' is "non-sorting character(s), beginning, and
X'89' is "non-sorting chracters(s), ending
These two are in MARC 21 documentation, others in the ISO standard are not
but other countries may have adopted them.
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