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Re: UTF-8+names

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• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@S...>
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:17:04 +0100 (BST)
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Joern Clausen <joern@T...> wrote at Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:16:43 +0200:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:36:25PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> >  o know whether the current MathML/HTML4 sets are sufficient; ie 
> > are we going to need to reversion this in couple of years to cater 
> > for ogham?
> 
> Of course they are not sufficient. They cover only a fragment of
> characters defined by Unicode.
> 
> One possibility might be to use the names from the Unicode code charts,
> like &hebrew-letter-yod; or &lao-letter-do;. Think of them as ad-hoc
> entities, if you like.

A.k.a. the DSSSL approach.

However, there are frequent additions to Unicode, so you'd be faced
with an ever-increasing set of names that you'd expect software to
cope with.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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    • From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
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    • From: Joern Clausen <joern@T...>

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