Michael Everson scripsit: > >The scale in question is analogous to a temperature scale, not a > >reptilian one. > > Now I very *seriously* don't get it.
A temperature scale enumerates the degrees -273, -272, -271, ..., 0, 1, 2, ... in order. When you ask "What is the temperature?", you are actually asking "What is the scalar value of the temperature?" The Unicode scale enumerates the characters 0, 1, 2, ... 10FFFF. Unicode scalar values are points on this scale, just as temperature scalar values are points on the (Celsius) temperature scale. -- Winter: MIT, John Cowan Keio, INRIA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Issue lots of Drafts. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan So much more to understand! http://www.reutershealth.com Might simplicity return? (A "tanka", or extended haiku)
