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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: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:22:29 -0800
• Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• References: <200211011409.JAA09934@m...>
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John Cowan wrote:
> Paul Prescod scripsit:
> 
> 
>>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 underscore or dot!

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

XML uses english names for keywords and it seems consistent to also use 
English for character entity names.

  Paul Prescod

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