Re: CXS changes
From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
Date: | Monday, November 8, 2004, 19:39 |
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:33:49PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Maybe, but then you open up the Pandora's box of non-ASCII characters.
> Once you do that, are all sorts of things that have better
Hm. Dropped a "there" there.
My point, though, is that ASCII, while somewhat arbitrary, is a pretty
easy limitation to explain: no diacritical marks, no ligatures, no
non-Roman letters, etc. If you open it up to Latin-1 but not Unicode,
you suddenly have to worry about the much more arbitrary-seeming list of
*which* diacritical marks, ligatures, and non-Roman letters you can use
out of all the ones you can't. That will lead to obvious
assymetries/inconsistencies like using æ but not using œ (oe lig).
-Marcos