Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My thinking was that they were strictly stylistic, and not something > > you'd ever want in plain text. > > My thinking is that they are perfectly proper English characters on > their own right and that the world of electronic publishing will become > much nicer and simpler once we have them everywhere in plaintext and on > keyboards.
I can probably agree with you as far as quotation marks and different kinds of '-' are concerned, but the list you mentioned earlier included things like "superscript 3", which might mean slithering over the edge of a slippery slope. What about all the world's currency symbols, musical symbols, astrological symbols, logical operators and quantifiers, QED sign, Greek letters used in mathematics and physics, etc? Every good typesetter needs them, but perhaps we don't need them on the keyboard. But here's one that should go in rather near the top of the list: decimal point. Definitely not the same as full stop. Despite the evil influence of computers, I think most people still distinguish them in handwriting. And I'm not so sure about non-breaking space. It's a typesetting hint rather than a character. You could also have different space characters for inter-word and inter-sentence space ... Edmund -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
