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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 2:52 PM -0400 7/9/01, John Cowan wrote: > >> Please tell me what kind of argument you would find convincing. > > Prove to me the existence of 10,000 or more users who want to write > XML *markup* in any combination of the scripts added in Unicode 3.0 > and 3.1, who cannot reasonably use an alternative script for their > language of choice, and who do not read and write some better > supported language. I doubt if you (or anyone) could *prove* the existence of 10,000 users who want to write XML markup in English, never mind in the newly added languages. So your argument reduces to: Latin was there first, so it wins. Ethiopic/Khmer/Thaana/Myanar script languages didn't make it under the gate in time, so they lose. For at least the next few thousand years. Feh. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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