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• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:26:21 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DC29BCE.3020508@t...> (message from Tim Bray on Fri,01 Nov 2002 07:20:46 -0800)
• References: <200211011409.JAA09934@m...> <3DC29BCE.3020508@t...>

> Pick the English version.  Or the French.  Whichever.  I haven't heard a 
> good argument against this yet, except for someone suggested the names 
> aren't stable and change with Unicode revs... is this true? -Tim

The names do change from time to time. the names of the lowercase phi
characters changed at unicode 3 for example.

Also this would of course be a _much_ larger predefined list of names
for a system to carry around than a list based on the
ISO/mathml/docbook/xhtml entities.

David


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