Re: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Mon, 17 Apr 95 10:59:17 EDT
>Re Dan's "the text entity is the characters, not their representation."
>Is it not the case that there is no SGML text entity that is not a
>representation of characters? We're not dealing with the Aness of
>A, the Bness of B, but with representations of A and B. SGML is
>about manipulating representations of characters.
I would agree with Dan: SGML is about manipulating characters.
The application manipulates the representation. That is a fundamental
concept in my proposal to use ISO 10646 as the document (coded)
character set.