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RE: [xml-dev] [Summary] UTF-8 Question: e with acute accent should require two bytes, right?
- From: "Jo Rabin" <jrabin@mtld.mobi>
- To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:39:43 +0100
The morning star is Venus and the evening star is Venus too. That
doesn't mean to say that the morning star is the evening star. They are
different manifestations of the same thing. The morning star never
appears in the evening ...
Jo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@inf.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: 29 September 2007 11:21
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] [Summary] UTF-8 Question: e with acute accent
> should require two bytes, right?
>
> In article <001401c8027b$1c17e4a0$4000a8c0@Codalogic> you write:
>
> >Just because Unicode "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A" and ASCII "Capital
Letter
> A"
> >represent the same character, does not mean that Unicode "LATIN
CAPITAL
> >LETTER A" _IS_ ASCII "Capital Letter A".
>
> I would say that Unicode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A *is* a character, not
> that it represents one. ASCII Capital Letter A is the same character.
> So Unicode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A is ASCII Capital Letter A.
>
> George W Bush is the president of the USA. I don't have to say
> "George W Bush" and "the president of the USA" represent the same
> person.
>
> -- Richard
> --
> "Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
> in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
>
>
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