On Sat, Jan 18, 2025, at 4:47 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 16:42:59 -0500, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> It is true that the man page and texinfo manual do not define >> "character". (It does not mean "abstraction"; I'm not sure how you >> arrived at that conclusion). > > That was my word. If you have a better one, I'd love to hear it. > > [...] > > Now, a "character" is an abstraction. It refers to a single value from > any kind of human writing system. In English, characters include letters, > numerals, punctuation marks, and so on.
I did see this, but I know you didn't mean that "character" *means* "an abstraction". That reading is like interpreting "a dog is a mammal" as saying that the word "dog" means "a mammal". -- vq
