> Analogously, the real obstacle to the use of 'break character' is that > 'break' has a very different connotation in ASCII/UNIX/C environments > that are still preoccupied with traditional and at best obsolescent > serial, character-by-character processing schemes.
Actually, the real obstacle to the use of "break character" is that, anachronistic or not, most people already understand what the term "underscore character" means, while "break character" produces only confusion. My expectation is therefore that most will quite sensibly continue to use "underscore". Incidentally, the official Unicode name for the character was formerly "spacing underscore" but is now "low line". I don't really expect that "low line" will enter common usage, either. Regards, Allen Gainsford Info Developer, Banking Shared Services HP Enterprise Services (South Pacific) Office +64-4-819-5236 | Fax +64-4-819-5955 | Email [email protected]
