RE: Exemplar Characters

From: JR (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 00:41:25 CST

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    It isn't the question. The text says "The exemplar character set contains
    the commonly used letters for a given modern form of a language", and
    continues with "It is not a complete set of letters used for a language".

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
    > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:52 AM
    > To: Unicode Mailing List
    > Subject: Re: Exemplar Characters
    >
    >
    > I tend to think of this as a religious war. There will
    > always be those
    > who feel English can be written perfectly well with straight
    > ASCII, and
    > others who feel it cannot be written properly without curly quotes and
    > arrows and symbols and at least four types of dashes and every Latin
    > letter used in a loanword or name that appears in an English sentence.
    > [1] These two groups will never agree on what the "exemplar"
    > characters
    > for a given language are.
    >
    > --
    > Doug Ewell
    > Fullerton, California, USA
    > [1] http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/dougslaw.html
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