From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 10:38:52 CST
Hello,
it is always sad, if a joke has to be explained. But so be it.
James Kass had written:
> Please leave the "Search by Name" function enabled, it is
> quite useful. Type in the word PARENTHESIS and BabelPad
> or BabelMap steps through the entire Unicode repertoire,
> finding *all* the parenthesis characters.
Alluding to the misspelled "BRAKCED" (or some such) recently mentioned,
in this thread, Curtis Clark had made the following joke:
> The same technique works for all but one of the brackets. :-)
I have continued that joke:
> Remenber, Asmus Freytag had written:
> just look [in http://www.unicode.org/unibook] there, where you will find
> *all* of the brackets. ;-)
I. e. including the misspelled one, as that programm had been reported,
just before, to search the aliases along with the names proper.
I have continued:
> I hope, other implementations (including that BableMap) will follow suit.
> After all, this is what TUS 16.1, subsection "Aliases", is suggesting.
I have mentioned BableMap because, from the preceding discussion, I was
under the impression that it only covers the names proper. However, I had
not tested it, which I probably should have -- but then I have already spent
far too much time in this thread.
Andrew C. West writes:
> What do you mean by "follow suit" ? BabelMap has allowed search within the
> entire 'character entry' for over a year now.
All the better. Andrew, no harm was meant; please forgive my sloppiness.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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