RE: Hexadecimal digits?

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> >Well, obviously I support this totally, since I suggested the same
> >thing myself on this list earlier this year (see
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unicode/message/20789).
> >
> >I am 100% in favor of adding hex digits to Unicode. I speak as a
> >programmer, and as a designer of software architecture. There /is/ a
> >need for this.
>
> There are oceans of data out there with ABCDEF used already.

And rivers of code parsing and generating the same ABCDEF.

> What do you propose to do about that?

I think the proposals either to have the six "hexalphadigits" or the sixteen
"hexdigits" or the 256 "bytedigits" are doomed to have about as much usage as
the equally well-intentioned Unicode LS and PS.

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