Peter Constable commented as follows. >On 09/25/2002 05:55:02 AM "William Overington" wrote: > >>For example, I am looking at using the following sequence so as to produce >a >>special purpose key within documents. >> >>U+2604 U+0302 U+20E3 >> >>Hopefully that sequence will be so unlikely to occur other than in my >>specialised application that the sequence can be used uniquely for that >>specialised application. > >Sorry to be blunt, but that's silly. If you need a special-purpose >"character" (a code-sequence, to be more precise) for use within your >specialised application, use one of FDD0..FDEF, FFFE, FFFF, 1FFFE, 1FFFF, >2FFFE... 10FFFE, 10FFFF. They are non-characters available for exactly >this use. >
Documents with the code sequence are intended to be sent over the internet as email, used as web pages and broadcast in multimedia broadcasts over a direct broadcast satellite system, so the codes which you suggest would be unsuitable. >If you need real character sequences for markup, there's this thing called >XML. Perhaps you've heard of it. It's worth taking a look at; I think it >really might catch on some day. I have heard of XML, though I know little about it. I have read some introductory documents about XML. XML does not suit my specific need as far as I can tell. William Overington 26 September 2002
