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Old 11-09-2007, 06:37 AM   #130
GregS
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PS to add one aside - the problem of Unicode.

I very much favour, because we must deal with the languages of the world that we should move away from ASCII.

However, the problem is not the scripts whatever the language, but page decoration and punctuation.

In XML/XHTML/TEI whatever, entities solve a good deal of this because they are unambiguous. Fonts do not cover everything and even curly quotes pose problems when rendered into direct code.

I am suggesting that entity sets need to be applied heavily, to maintain the long term integrity of texts. It is at the cost of size, but an apostrophe is not a closing single quote, though the glyph is.

We cannot get the method of glyths mixed up with the system of original writing. How something might be rendered should not become a substitute for the mark being rendered.
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