On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:47, Carl Cerecke wrote: > OK. Point taken. But I wouldn't describe UTF-8 (and friends) as plain > text. For example, the character â or â can easily be represented by the > strings "13." and "(19)" respectively. Having each represented as a > single char is, IMHO, nuts. That is one of the lovely thing about standards, they have some odd parts in them! My favourite oddity in Unicode: Glyph U+2638 (Wheel of Dharma â) which sits between Trigram for Earth (â) and the White Frowning Face (â). It is not stupid, or silly, or strange, but it amuses me every time I see it.
I take *way* to much pleasure out of the GNOME Unicode Character Map. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
