Hi Philippe,
> > > http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2677 > > > N2677 > > > Proposal for six Hexadecimal digits > > > Ricardo Cancho Niemietz - individual contribution > > > 2003-10-21 > > <snip> > > > > Could be interesting for processing, and I can see a reason > for keeping > > these unique from U+0041-U+0046 but ultimately I thought > the hex "byte > > picture" proposal would have been more useful. > > Why that? How will you represent hex sequences with variable number of > nibbles? > The purpose of this proposal is to make those extra characters really > numeric and not letters, with only a compatibility equivalence (not a > canonical one) with ASCII letters to which they ressemble. <snip> Of course, and I agree with you entirely when you're dealing with an arbitrary number of nibbles, and I support this proposal for the same reasons you do. However personally, when dealing with a octet, or an arbitrary number of octets, I believe the byte-pictures would be much easier to deal with (especially when dealing with a lot of raw data). - Simon
