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Mike Champion scripsit: > Sure! The question is how to do something to make our > lives less unpleasant while The System plots forward. > Be patient, vote with our feet against crappy software > that can't handle Unicode decently, or try to hack up > something in the interim? The whole point of Unicode > encodings is to map conveniently enterable text onto > codepoints, and whatever the technical virtues or > flaws of Tim's strawman proposal, this seems like the > right layer to address it. Character naming isn't just a hack for 8-bit users; it's just as practical for someone using Unicode directly. The human issue of referencing characters over a huge codespace is just as great whatever the underlying encoding. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among the orthodox--thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness. --T. H. Huxley
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