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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: jcowan@r...
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:23:32 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200211011416.JAA10006@m...> (message fromJohn Cowan on Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:02:23 -0500 (EST))
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> 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. 

\hat{\imath + \jmath} = \hat{\imath} + \hat{jmath}


Although this really misses the point. Unicode contains several
characters that are explictly there to round trip other formats.

Given the importance today to map documents coded in 
SGML+SDATA-entities
to 
XML+Unicode character data
I find it frankly astonishing that Unicode 3 didn't take
as a _requirement_  that it support all the characters that had ISO
entity definitions.


David

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