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 On 13 January 2011 14:35, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote: > The other thing to do is, if you find that your application needs the letter > K (for example), you either redesign your application so that it doesn't > need the letter K, or accept that MicroASCII doesn't support what you need > and use full ASCII. Are there any known use cases of applications which actually use the letter 'cay'? Bob. > > > Pete Cordell > Codalogic Ltd > Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML > data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. > Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com > for more info > > > > Original Message From: "Greg Hunt" >> >> I like this. The savings in space and complexity that this proposal would >> deliver would go quite some way toward mitigating the effects of the >> infinite recursion that would be needed to encode the proposed URL for >> inserting obsolete characters like u, U and possibly the punctuation. >> >> Greg >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Pete Cordell >> <petexmldev@codalogic.com>wrote: >> >>> April 1st seems like a good date to focus on for this as I would rather >>> finish one task before starting another. But building consensus on which >>> subset of ASCII to use is the key bit, so that we can have THE MicroASCII >>> format rather Yet Another MicroASCII format. >>> >>> >>> Pete Cordell >>> Codalogic Ltd >>> Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML >>> data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. >>> Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com >>> for more info >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fuller" < >>> MICHAEL.S.FULLER@saic.com> >>> To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com> >>> Cc: "rjelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>; <xml-dev@l...> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:18 AM >>> Subject: Re: MicroASCII proposal >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> [...] > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > 
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