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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:33:12PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: > Boy, this one's tough. I buy neither Elliote's assertion that > changing XML is unthinkable, nor John Cowan's assertion that the > depth of the cultural affront to users of pre-Unicode-3.1 > languages is so high as to outweigh consideration of cost. Clearly, you're not from a third-world country. I am, and while I would not claim to speak for any other third-worlder, and even though I personally am not affected by the limitations, I find the "affront" offensive in the extreme. "Cost" is not only about money or the difficulties highy-paid first-world people would experience in having to put in a few weeks of overtime and short sleeps to update their parsers. The suffering! Colin
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