Re: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal

[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@gmail.com>]

On 13 January 2011 14:35, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are there any known use cases of applications which actually use the
letter 'cay'?

Bob.

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> Pete Cordell
> Codalogic Ltd
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  [...]
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