Re: Sporadic Unicode revisited

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 13:45:48 EDT

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    Ah, sorry, I meant "RFC 1345" abbreviations.

            Rick

    >
    > Martin K wrote:
    >
    > > people might be interested
    > > in the hexadecimal Alt+ numeric-keypad solution that we're
    > > implementing.
    >
    > Both (recent) Windows and Mac platforms already have means of entering any
    > Unicode character, in hexadecimal. Both platforms also have other means,
    > such as the "Character Map" utility of Windows... How does this new Cardbox
    > facility help anyone?
    >
    > (BTW, I agree with Mark about those ISO 14755 abbreviations... They aren't
    > very "mnemonic". Many people have the charts available, so there is no
    > great advantage to using mnemonics over simply using numbers or
    > palettes.)
    >
    > Rick
    >
    >

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