SJS wrote: > begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:43:50PM > -0800: > [snip] >> I suppose you must mean that "(C)" is an equivalent for the copyright >> sign. Well ..um, ..maybe. > > It's just a little bigger. > >> But I'm sorry, I would not agree to the there being lots of Unicode >> characters which have ASCII equivalents. I would say that >> (overwhelmingly) most unicode characters are not anything like ASCII, >> and have nothing that could be called ASCII equivalent. The unicode >> folks _have_ come up with an english name for every character though. It >> does get a bit tedious spelling it out all the time .. "LATIN SMALL >> LETTER E WITH ACUTE"? > > Well, calling it "acute-e" just begs for a pi suffix. >
I have to admit, it has a little better sound than U+00E9 U+03C0 ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
