• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'David Carlisle'" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: RE: UTF-8+names
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:42:20 +0100
• Cc: <elharo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <3F92DDDE.6050609@t...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> That is to say, I can see non-XML applications finding it handy to be 
> able to say "Martin Dürst said so." but I don't see a common use 
> case for "Clearly in this case Ir < Is", unless you're 
> headed for XML.

When will it be handy?

I could see it being handy if it encoded allowed any Unicode character
to be represented using ASCII characters, because that would enable me
to enter Unicode at a keyboard. But it only allows some Unicode
characters, and I still need a UTF-8 aware editor to enter the others!

So (a) why not make it ASCII-based rather than UTF-8 based, and (b) why
not allow numeric character references to be expanded for the characters
that don't have names?

Michael Kay

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