Ar 07:18 -0700 1999-06-04, scr�obh Alain:
>A 06:02 99-06-04 -0700, Markus Kuhn a �crit :
>>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 LaBont�
>Project Editor, ISO/IEC 14755
It sounds like a bad idea to me. All subsets of ISO/IEC 10646 must contain
ASCII, right?
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