Re: [xml-dev] Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?

[Philippe Poulard <philippe.poulard@sophia.inria.fr>]

Liam Quin a écrit :
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:28:39PM +0100, Philippe Poulard wrote:
>> what about referring character entities by their Unicode names instead 
>> of their domain-specific names ? it's the same but less antique and more 
>> universal
>>
>> something like this :
>> &#(MEASURED ANGLE);
>> instead of
>> ∡
> 
> It's not very internationalized.

Yet entities are used that way : not internationalized.

> This would only be OK if it was available in every language, it
> seems to me.

The names of characters in the Unicode repertoire are in english ; if 
each name has to be translated in each language we would get a large 
matrix, some people already complain about the idea of dealing with a 
single key...

&#(fr:MESURE D'ANGLE);

I don't know how to say "MEASURED ANGLE" in Cherokee :)

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Cordialement,

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