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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:20:46 -0800
• Cc: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>,David Carlisle <davidc@n...>, xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

> >Now that Unicode gives English names to all characters, couldn't we say
> >that all pre-Unicode names (SGML/ISO, XHTML/MatML/W3C, Docbook/OASIS
> >etc.) are legacy names which over the long run could be replaced by
> >entity names directly based upon Unicode names?
>
>
> The long Unicode names have spaces in them, for one thing, and you canot
> replace the spaces with hyphens because hyphen is also in use.

So use underscores (_).

>   In addition,
> ISO 10646 has two sets of names, English (the same as Unicode) and French.

Pick the English version.  Or the French.  Whichever.  I haven't heard a 
good argument against this yet, except for someone suggested the names 
aren't stable and change with Unicode revs... is this true? -Tim

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