From alb@riq.qc.ca Sun May 11 00:07:08 1997 Received: from socrate.riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01065; Sun, 11 May 1997 00:07:05 +0200 Received: from 571 (riq-44-132.riq.qc.ca) by socrate.riq.qc.ca (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA21831; Sat, 10 May 1997 18:12:52 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970420190550.006e8af0@mail.riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@mail.riq.qc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 beta 14 (32) [F] Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 19:05:50 -0300 To: Misha Wolf , Multiple Recipients of From: "Alain LaBont/e'/" Subject: Re: &xnnnn; In-Reply-To: <9705101652.AA17662@Unicode.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A 09:52 10/05/97 -0700, Unicode Discussion a écrit : >At the HTML WG meeting, I hope to help sort out the various i18n-related >errors in Cougar. This mail deals with one point which is a proposal rather >than a bug report. > >As: > >1. the Cougar document character set is ISO 10646/Unicode, and > >2. that standard uses a hexadecimal character numbering scheme, and > >3. not many people are good at doing hexadecimal-to-decimal conversion in > their heads, [Alain] : Just because of this, the ISO/IEC 14755 (Input methods to enter UCS characters) uses the notion of "catalog number" for characters. End users all are familiar with the notion of catalog number. In ISO/IEC 14755 this notion is now standardized in thinking about end users and the fact that UCS/UNICODE ids are in hexadecimal only (these are the character catalog numbers). Hence in using such a catalog number end users don't need to be aware about hex to decimal conversion or to binary... [Misha] : >it would be helpful to allow hex NCRs. It would be best to follow the XML >syntax for this and follow the "&" with an "x". All of these represent the >same character: > > A > > &65; > > &x41; > >Note: ISO 10646/Unicode allows more than four hex digits and so implementations >should be built to cope with NCRs such as "&xnnnnn;". [...] I agree with this. Alain LaBonté Québec