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Re: ISO Entity Sets and UNICODE

Subject: Re: ISO Entity Sets and UNICODE
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:38:05 +0100 (BST)
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Patrick  D. F. Ion asked me to forward this

 > At 9:11 PM +0100 4/24/00, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
 > >Rick Geimer writes:
 > >  > You could try the entity sets that come with MathML:
 > >  >
 > >  >	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-MathML/mmlents.zip
 > >  >
 > >  > ...or you can try recreating your own sets from the excellent mapping
 > >  > provided by Sebastian Rahtz and others at the following URL:
 > >  >
 > >  >	http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/unicode.xml
 > >
 > >in case it is not obvious, the former is derived from the latter
 > >entirely automatically.

It may be useful to remark that there's a caveat in regard to some
of the Unicode assignments in the fine table unicode.xml.  For the
ISO "mathy" items not already in Unicode 3.0 the assignments are
those in the STIX proposal presently wending its way through the
standards process of deliberations by the UTC and ISO WG2.

The proposal, which is actually made up of several parts, seems
to have wide-spread support.  The assignments given have been picked by
the relevant expert members or advisors to these groups.  However,
they have not yet been affirmed finally by the standards process, which
ultimately involves voting by national representatives.  There will be a
discussion of some of the finer details of the proposal (which had to be
modified as a result of an ISO meeting in Beijing last month) at a
UTC meeting in Mountain View, CA tomorrow.

Many of us,  for instance on the W3C Math WG and at the AMS, hope
that these extensions to Unicode for the benefit of scientific
communication on the Web will go through essentially as they are.
There is a reasonable expectation that this will happen.  I would ask
everyone not to hesitate to voice support for these developments.

		Patrick

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