Edward Cherlin noted (in "ASCII.die.die.die"):
> Let plain text be plain.
This is, indeed, one of the design principles of the Unicode(tm)
Standard that, while somewhat tattered at the edges, is still
worth defending.
The greatest success of ASCII has been as a universal medium of
plain text. Among other things, I can state:
"'Singe' is French for 'monkey'."
...without any language tags, and using only standard text conventions.
The Unicode Standard will succeed best if it attains the goal of
being a universal "big-ASCII". I want to be able to state:
"'U+733F' is Japanese (and Chinese) for 'monkey'."
...without any language tags, and using only standard text conventions.
Deep down, ignoring the various standards encrustations and nods to
backwards compatibility, the goal of the Unicode Standard is really
that simple.
--Ken Whistler
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