From: Simon Butcher (pickle@alien.net.au)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 11:28:33 EST
Hi Philippe,
> > > http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2677
> > > N2677
> > > Proposal for six Hexadecimal digits
> > > Ricardo Cancho Niemietz - individual contribution
> > > 2003-10-21
> > <snip>
> >
> > Could be interesting for processing, and I can see a reason
> for keeping
> > these unique from U+0041-U+0046 but ultimately I thought
> the hex "byte
> > picture" proposal would have been more useful.
>
> Why that? How will you represent hex sequences with variable number of
> nibbles?
> The purpose of this proposal is to make those extra characters really
> numeric and not letters, with only a compatibility equivalence (not a
> canonical one) with ASCII letters to which they ressemble.
<snip>
Of course, and I agree with you entirely when you're dealing with an arbitrary number of nibbles, and I support this proposal for the same reasons you do.
However personally, when dealing with a octet, or an arbitrary number of octets, I believe the byte-pictures would be much easier to deal with (especially when dealing with a lot of raw data).
- Simon
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