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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: davidc@n... (David Carlisle)
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:02:23 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: paul@p..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200211011207.MAA22172@p...> from "David Carlisle" at Nov 01, 2002 12:07:06 PM

David Carlisle scripsit:

> Such a scheme could be made to work, yes, although I might take issue
> with "Unicode gives English names to all characters" what name does
> Unicode give to the character which has the ISOAMSO name jnodot for
> example?

The UTC's position on jnodot is that there's no evidence that it's actually
used as a *character* anywhere, as opposed to a glyph fragment used to
construct various kinds of accented j's.  Unicode prescribes that i and j
lose their dot if another accent is placed on them (if you need the dot
as well, as in Lithuanian, you use an explicit dot accent).

When the Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet is encoded, this position may be
reconsidered.

(not speaking officially, of course)

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John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
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