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Re: Blueberry/Unicode/XML
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: "HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <mark_hughes@non.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:27:43 -0400 (EDT)
HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1) scripsit:
> By the way, someone brought up the case of Klingon, which didn't get
> its own Unicode script because it has a Latin equivalent...
Not quite: rather because in-language writing uniformly uses the Latin
script -- it is official.
> But the
> apostrophe is an essential character in Klingon, so you can't currently
> write Klingon XML markup. Given that there are more Klingon users and
> programmers than some of the omitted scripts (there's even a Klingon
> programming language, var'aq), this is obviously a dire flaw in XML.
Ho.
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