Doug Ewell scripsit:
> I suppose it's not too early to point out that I would be opposed to any
> nascent plans to "improve" on the characters used in ISO 639-3, by
> changing the ASCII slashes and bangs to "real" Unicode click letters.
+1
> Applications are welcome to change these to the "correct" characters for
> display.
Not much point: they'd display the same way in any reasonable font.
The point of these letter clones of punctuation marks is so that
one can use natural-language identifiers (in programming languages,
XML documents, etc.) without straying into the domain of punctuation
marks, which are usually forbidden in identifiers.
--
John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves.
-- Julius Caesar
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