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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:29:18 -0500
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At 2:41 AM +1100 11/2/02, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

>Do we really think people will type &GREEK_SMALL_LETTER_ALPHA;
>rather than  α  ?   Or
>
>   Martin D&LATIN_SMALL_LETTER_U_WITH_DIAESERIS;erst
>
>rather than Martin Düerst.
>
>Let alone
>
>&LEFT-POINTING_DOUBLE_ANGLE_QUOTATION_MARK;ecart&RIGHT-POINTING_DOUBLE_ANGLE_QUOTATION_MARK;
>
>instead of   «ecart»


It varies. I can remember α through ω and Α through 
Ω. I can normally remember é, á, and a few 
others. However, I always have to look up ones like ü and 
« whereas I could plausibly guess 
&LATIN_SMALL_LETTER_U_WITH_DIAERESIS; and 
&LEFT-POINTING_DOUBLE_ANGLE_QUOTATION_MARK;
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