Re: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

The other thing to do is, if you find that your application needs the letter 
K (for example), you either redesign your application so that it doesn't 
need the letter K, or accept that MicroASCII doesn't support what you need 
and use full ASCII.


Pete Cordell
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Original Message From: "Greg Hunt"
>I like this.  The savings in space and complexity that this proposal would
> deliver would go quite some way toward mitigating the effects of the
> infinite recursion that would be needed to encode the proposed URL for
> inserting obsolete characters like u, U and possibly the punctuation.
>
> Greg
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Pete Cordell 
> <petexmldev@codalogic.com>wrote:
>
>> April 1st seems like a good date to focus on for this as I would rather
>> finish one task before starting another.  But building consensus on which
>> subset of ASCII to use is the key bit, so that we can have THE MicroASCII
>> format rather Yet Another MicroASCII format.
>>
>>
>> Pete Cordell
>> Codalogic Ltd
>> Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML
>> data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes.
>> Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com
>> for more info
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fuller" <
>> MICHAEL.S.FULLER@saic.com>
>> To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
>> Cc: "rjelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>; <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I can't really see any value in rushing into this until, say, April
>>> at the earliest.  We really need to evolve a consensus first.
>>> Perhaps a draft RFC is appropriate? And a few robust implementations
>>> would certainly help...
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> --
>>> TeraText DBS Development, SAIC Pty Ltd.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:44:44AM -0000, Pete Cordell wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is an interesting proposal Rick.  While I've no use for it myself,
>>>> I recognise that I don't represent every programmer, and if someone 
>>>> like
>>>> you finds it useful, there are likely to be many others that would also
>>>> find it useful.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "rjelliffe" 
>>> <rjelliffe@allette.com.au
>>>> >
>>>> To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:36 AM
>>>> Subject: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal
>>>>
>>>>  [...]
>>>
>>>  In order to do this, I am proposing MicroASCII. This would restore
>>>>> ASCII to its Latin essentials and reduce the insane repeats.
>>>>> Syntactical sugar such as K, Y and Z are no-brainers of course: I 
>>>>> doubt
>>>>> that anyone will really miss them. But more recent fads such J, W and 
>>>>> U
>>>>> are better off treated as presentation forms and taken care of by
>>>>> another layer: ASCII violates this basic separation of concerns.
>>>>> Indeed, the whole lower-case is redundant.
>>>>>
>>>>>  [...]