Re: Entering Unicode characters

[Alexis]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I suggested that it would be good to come up with short ASCII 
> visual representations of SOME of these Unicode characters _for 
> ubb-browse_.
>
> You seem to be trying to prove we can't do this for ALL the 
> Unicode characters, but I never said we could do them all. 
> Doing it for just some characters will be useful.

What i was trying to say was that, setting aside the difficulty of 
create an ASCII representation for /all/ Unicode codepoints, i 
could foresee a lot of energy being sunk into debates over the 
'best' representation for even /some/ of the codepoints. You 
wrote:

> Just pick one.  Since the representation will be used only in 
> this one feature, the choice is not crucial. 

i tend to agree, but my experience with these sort of situations 
suggests that there will be a number of people feeling that the 
colour of the bikeshed /is/ a crucial matter. :-) But i guess 
we'll see what happens!


Alexis.