On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:43:14 +0000
James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
> Now what if we were future historians given the task of encoding both
> of those strings, from two different sources, and had no idea what
> those two strings were supposed to represent? Wouldn't it be best to
> preserve both strings intact, as they were originally written?
In general, it is not possible to encode text in Unicodeif one has no
knowledge of what the text itself represents. Some English typewriters
did not distinguish digit ‘0’ from capital letter ‘O’ or digit ‘1’ from
small letter ‘l’.
Richard.
Received on Tue Oct 30 2018 - 13:26:01 CDT
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