"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn(_at_)mindspring(_dot_)com> writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
The issue remains that the informational RFC presents useful
mnemonics for many characters, and there doesn't appear to be such
a thing from Unicode or ISO. That's the point of an update to RFC
1345: it serves a purpose that I can't see served comparably well
elsewhere.
There's plenty of stuff, e.g.:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
I can't help thinking you're missing what I'm saying about the table
of character mnemonics in section 3 of RFC 1345. It presents three
fields per table entry: a character mnemonic, the ordinal number, and
the character name. The mnemonics are sequences of ASCII characters as
mnemonics for (mostly) non-ASCII characters.
None of the links you point to above have anything like this. They
have character *names* (descriptions) and character *ordinals*
(numbers), but not the *mnemonics* (sequences of ASCII characters with
mnemonic correspondence to the entry character) that are the point of
the table I'm referring to.
If you thought I was interested merely in a correspondence between
character ordinal and name, I can see why you'd point to the
references above. But I'm specifically talking about the mnemonics
table, which I don't see improved upon outside RFC 1345.
Still, if you think this is worth doing, please write an i-d and
hope for comments!
Again, I'm hoping on this list to attract the attention of someone
closer to knowledge about what went into RFC 1345. I thank you for
your encouragement so far.
--
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Ben Finney
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