Re: Revised language on: ISO/IEC 10646 -- another proposal

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Fri, 12 May 95 18:01:25 EDT

>Like others I feel that the use of ISO10646 as a document character
>set is a 95% (or better) solution: this just says that people who
>want to try that 5% can do so -- but doesn't promise it will
>be pretty ;)

For that 5%, why not ship GIF images, or send SGML instead, or perhaps
RTF or somesuch? Why complicate the base model, and open up holes in
it, for the sake of the border cases?