• From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:33:46 +0000

On 13/01/2022 14:07, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...> writes:
> 
>> A huge benefit, brought by XML, was that with Unicode, it allowed 
>> [all natural languages] an equal playing field
> 
> Hear, hear.  Those of you who were around in [Santa Clara, I think
> it was?] when the box of red pre-prints of the 1st draft of XML was 
> distributed will remember that there was significant push-back on
> the commitment to Unicode, along the lines of "you idiots, you've
> signed your own death warrant, no-one will commit to doubling the
> size of their documents just to accommodate people who should be
> using English anyway". 

To which my response was along the lines of "let them eat Word" (I was
fighting a battle between SGML and wordprocessors at the time).

> I exaggerate only slightly.

No, I think you are accurate.

> All credit to Jon Bosak and the rest of the editorial group for not
> giving in.
And for insisting on terseness being of minimal importance :-)

Peter

• References:
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
  • Re: It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?
    • From: ht@m... (Henry S. Thompson)