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I can't really see any value in rushing into this until, say, April at the earliest. We really need to evolve a consensus first. Perhaps a draft RFC is appropriate? And a few robust implementations would certainly help... Michael -- TeraText DBS Development, SAIC Pty Ltd. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:44:44AM -0000, Pete Cordell wrote: > This is an interesting proposal Rick. While I've no use for it myself, > I recognise that I don't represent every programmer, and if someone like > you finds it useful, there are likely to be many others that would also > find it useful. [...] > ----- Original Message ----- From: "rjelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> > To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:36 AM > Subject: MicroASCII proposal > [...] >> In order to do this, I am proposing MicroASCII. This would restore >> ASCII to its Latin essentials and reduce the insane repeats. >> Syntactical sugar such as K, Y and Z are no-brainers of course: I doubt >> that anyone will really miss them. But more recent fads such J, W and U >> are better off treated as presentation forms and taken care of by >> another layer: ASCII violates this basic separation of concerns. >> Indeed, the whole lower-case is redundant. >> [...]
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