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At 11:33 AM 20/12/01 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> I should
>note that in the WG were a number of experts in the field (in fact, a
>significant portion of the XML WG were I18N/Unicode experts of one form or
>another... certainly many were much more versed in I18N/Unicode than is
>common).
Lots of us were pretty ignorant when we got started on XML. We
took the motherhood decision to "base it on Unicode" without
really understanding what that meant, and got a very stiff and
rapid education at the merciless hands of the real Unicode wonks
who simply wouldn't let us go too far off the rails.
However, the group did include a people like me who'd
delved heavily into non-Latin text processing in the bad old
pre-Unicode style and thus were well-placed to understand why
this was important. -Tim
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