At 09:09 AM 12/18/01 -0700, John H. Jenkins wrote: >On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 08:00 AM, Rick Cameron wrote: > >>Pardon my ignorance, but what is an astral character? > >...but there are those of us who still ... use it in preference to the >official term.
I wish (and possible Rick as well after all the trouble he had finding out the well obscured meaning) that people who can't bear to use official terminology at least provide in-line glosses for their private use terminology. Unicode is at times accused of being hard to understand - whether that's true or not, there's no reason to make it purposefully obscure to the uninitiated. A./
