"Randy Presuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- \ "I must say that I find television very educational. The minute | `\ somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book." -- | _o__) Groucho Marx | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
