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On 22/02/2008, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > > > > Not in our lifetime or XML's, possibly not in humanity's. It > > took humanity thousands of years to invent the ~100,000 > > characters in Unicode today. It will take at least thousands > > more to invent the next 900,000. > > > Music notation is now in Unicode, but in very incomplete form. How many > characters would be added if one tried to do dance notation? > > And I wonder how many corporate logos there are in everyday use, and when we > will see the first one added to Unicode? Out of interest - what is the standard approach for displaying some XML that contains a real mix Unicode characters? I remember working for one place where they didn't want to / couldn't pay the licensing for Arial Unicode MS and I had to mark up non Arial characters to use a different font. I hope that's not a dumb question... I remember thinking at the time it was a poor "solution". I seem to recall something about a future CSS version handling it? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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