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Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition

• To: ht@c...
• Subject: Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:31:52 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <f5bofj2ho9h.fsf@c...> (ht@c...)
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 <character name="eacute" code="xC9"/>

A large number of the MathML entities do not map to a single unicode
code point but two (or in a few cases three). Common cases the second
character being a combining character (eg the negation / ) or the new
math variant character VS1 (to be) introduced in Unicode 3.2.
eg the ISOASMN nlE (not less than) would seem to map to
U02A7D U00338
where U02A7D is LESS-THAN OR SLANTED EQUAL TO (unicode 3.2)
and   U00338 is COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY

so probably code would need to take a sequence of decimal or hex values,
not just a single one.

David

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• References:
  • Re: Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
  • Re: Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
  • A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition
    • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition
    • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)

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