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Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?

• From: Robin Berjon <robin@j...>
• To: elharo@m...
• Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:39:55 +0100

On Feb 16, 2008, at 18:30, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Dave Pawson wrote:
>> Elliotte. You mutter about Unicode changes/stability, just how
>> stable is this set of entities?
>
> Reasonably. We'd just need to agree that we won't have every entity  
> everybody needs; just a reasonable set that a lot of people need.

And how do you get to pick those? There are a lot of people who  
speak, say, Mandarin who might not have a computer right now but will  
in a couple years' time. Do we ask them what they want or do we just  
go ahead with the (for the most part, blatantly useless) set of  
é and friends.

Maybe we should have a Rich White Men Consortium that would make  
"reasonable" specification?

--
Robin Berjon
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• References:
  • Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>