"Randy Presuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > "Randy Presuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > (1) What be the point of an update to RFC 1345?  A modern developer
> > > should be going directly to the ISO and Unicode documents for
> > > reference.
> > 
> > RFC 1345 gives mnemonic strings for many useful characters, and there
> > are a number of character input systems that use this standard for the
> > purpose of standard key sequences for entering those characters.
> ...
> 
> RFC 1345 is *not* a standard.  It is an informational RFC.

Duly noted.

The issue remains that the informational RFC presents useful mnemonics
for many characters, and there doesn't appear to be such a thing from
Unicode or ISO. That's the point of an update to RFC 1345: it serves a
purpose that I can't see served comparably well elsewhere.

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Ben Finney


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