From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 14:47:42 EDT
Mark Davis scripsit:
> Those "mnemonics" in (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html) are pretty
> useless in practice, as well as being misnamed. From Websters: "assisting or
> intended to assist memory". So what about the combination <;S> is supposed
> to aid or assist memory in coming up with U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF
> RING? Beats me.
";" in many (though not all) mnemonics means "ogonek", so its presence here
is reasonable, considering that this character (which appears only in
ISO-IR-158) is the original "High Ogonek". Since ISO-IR-158 is for Saami,
perhaps "S" stands for "Saami". Writing "S;" would erroneously suggest
"S with ogonek".
> In practice, if they were to be used in an IME, there would have to be some
> kind of switch to initiate typing one of these things. They are context
> sensitive (they overlap), so it would also need some kind switch to indicate
> the end of them. That is: THI could be <\u00DE, H> or <T, \u2253> or <T, H,
> I>.
As RFC 1345 says, you write &THI for the first case, T&HI for the second, and
THI for the third. Mnemonics that are not two-character are written
&_..._ in context, thus U+1ECD ("o" with dot below) is written &_o-._
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John Cowan
jcowan@reutershealth.com
I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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