Re: String name and Character Name

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 10:38:52 CST

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    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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