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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: ricko@a... (Rick Jelliffe)
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 06:44:01 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... ('xml-dev')
• In-reply-to: <01a501c28179$b9239ce0$4bc8a8c0@A...> from "Rick Jelliffe" at Nov 01, 2002 06:38:51 PM

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> Very few fonts have all the characters of Unicode.  Probably no font
> has all the characters of Unicode 3.2!    

AFAIK all font technologies except FIGlet have a maximum of 65535 glyphs,
which is not nearly enough.

> The only approach that I have seen that makes sense is to build in
> a fixed standard set of characters into XML, with known mappings.

It's a lot of bulk to carry around, and where do you stop?

-- 
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      jcowan@r...
Be yourself.  Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
no such knowledge exists.  Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
James Clark is as perennial as the grass.  --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath

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