• From: MURATA Makoto <murata@a...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:08:32 +0900

In message "Re: SDATA or UNICODE",	
	 Gavin Nicol wrote...
> I was hoping to create a repository of characters and glyphs, with
> mapping between them so that we could guarantee interoperability.

Characters are hard.  The committee for JIS X0208:1997 spent enourmous 
amount of time for each character in JIS X0208.  They apparently 
believe that the registration of new "characters" for different 
appearance is harmful.

[Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:01:51 +0900]

Makoto
 
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