Response to the comments of Mr Curtis Clark. >At 07:06 2002-05-24, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: >>Again, markup is the better solution. And, to be honest, it's a bit of >>a waste of space on the mailing list, don't you think? > >I agree. Unicode already provides the basis for a widely-used and >standardized formal system of markup by providing the characters U+003C, >U+003E, and U+002F.
No, it does not. Character U+003C is LESS-THAN SIGN Character U+003E is GREATER-THAN SIGN Character U+002F is SOLIDUS If some other people have used those characters in a markup system with a non-Unicode file format, that cannot be considered as Unicode providing the basis for markup. William Overington 25 May 2002
