And then there is of cause the mnemonics scheme recorded in
RFC 1345 - where the Internet definitions of things
like iso-9959-1 and us-ascii are recorded.
keld
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On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:58:28PM -0700, Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
> Markus Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote ...
>
> | I'd like to put together an ASCII fallback table that does exactly
> | that for at least the most frequently needed characters for which we
> | do use fallbacks in daily life already. Here is a start:
> |
> | [...]
>
> This has something in common with the "Atomic Theory" I wrote up
> last month. I systematically went through all the "Western" characters
> in Unicode (Latin, Greek, Russian and symbolic) and decomposed them
> into a simpler set of characters modified by "presentation
> suggestions", with the idea that unsophisticated renderers could ignore
> the presentation suggestions and get legible results. I was more
> concerned with the abstract semantics of the characters than in their
> visual appearance, but there are many points of similarity between your
> table and mine: in particular
>
> "..." <- 0x2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
> "^" <- 0x02C6 MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
> "S" <- 0x0160 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
> "OE" <- 0x0152 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
> "Z" <- 0x017D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> "~" <- 0x02DC SMALL TILDE
> "TM" <- 0x2122 TRADE MARK SIGN
> "s" <- 0x0161 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
> "oe" <- 0x0153 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
> "z" <- 0x017E LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> "Y" <- 0x0178 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
> "/" <- 0x2215 DIVISION SLASH
> "<<" <- 0x226A MUCH LESS-THAN
> ">>" <- 0x226B MUCH GREATER-THAN
>
> and I also proposed entries like
>
> "1/2" <- 0x00BD VULGAR FRACTION ONE-HALF
>
> etc. The details are at <http://www.doves.demon.co.uk/atomic.html>,
> though not at present in a very algorithm-friendly form, and not
> involving modifier letters yet. I intend to rectify both omissions.
>
> /|
> o o o (_|/
> /|
> (_/
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