Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

From
Tim Bray <>
To
John Cowan <>
Date
2002-11-04T21:20:10Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
John Cowan wrote:

> >Why not Unicode.org?  It could create short name "aliases" of the long
> >name descriptions.
>
> Are you really prepared to create short names (other than ones involving
> hex digits) for all 95,156 characters in Unicode 3.2?  Or even if we
> leave out the Han and Hangul characters, the 13,791 characters that 
> are left?
>
> It is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig job.

Yes, but it sure would be nice if it were done.  If this were done, I 
think that a lot of people would be willing to focus support on this and 
nothing else.  I wonder how much could be automated?  Hmm... -Tim