From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 13:55:01 EST
On 02/14/2003 09:00:16 AM Michael Everson wrote:
>At 13:38 +0000 2003-02-14, William Overington wrote:
>
>>Books in libraries are often classified with a code consisting of digits
and
>>a full stop character. For example, the number 515.53 is on a label
which
>>is still on the spine of a book which I bought in a sale of withdrawn
books
>>from a library. So, if U+E0002 were used to introduce a tag for the
library
>>book classification code, then a sequence starting with U+E0002 and using
>>some other tag characters could be used to classify the subject matter of
>>any document which is stored in computerized form.
>
>No, no, no, no, no. People should use XML or other forms of markup.
>You are headed into a dead end, William.
Not to mention that libraries already have well-established standards for
their data representation.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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