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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: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:20:10 -0800
• Cc: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@j...>, xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

> >Why not Unicode.org?  It could create short name "aliases" of the long
> >name descriptions.
>
> Are you really prepared to create short names (other than ones involving
> hex digits) for all 95,156 characters in Unicode 3.2?  Or even if we
> leave out the Han and Hangul characters, the 13,791 characters that 
> are left?
>
> It is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig job.

Yes, but it sure would be nice if it were done.  If this were done, I 
think that a lot of people would be willing to focus support on this and 
nothing else.  I wonder how much could be automated?  Hmm... -Tim

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