Re: Definition of character

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:

[...]

> Let's look at the putative benefit of a better definition. I think such
> a benefit has implicitly been claimed to exist, but I would ask for a
> demonstration in this case.

My positon formulated already in 2004:

   http://bc.klf.uw.edu.pl/112/

is that Unicode characters are abstract objects defined by enumeration
with a more or less loose relation to the characters in the
traditional sense.

Best regards

JSB

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