Arcane Jill wrote: > Or, indeed, why the "proper" name for a character must be in > English, and spellable in ASCII, instead of, say, Japanese.
The names are in English in the English version of the standard. The French version of 10646 appropriately has French names, not restricted to ASCII but to the repertoire of ISO 8859-15. See http://iquebec.ifrance.com/hapax/ListeDesNoms-4.0.0.txt (work in progress). -- Fran�ois
