> >Well, obviously I support this totally, since I suggested the same > >thing myself on this list earlier this year (see > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unicode/message/20789). > > > >I am 100% in favor of adding hex digits to Unicode. I speak as a > >programmer, and as a designer of software architecture. There /is/ a > >need for this. > > There are oceans of data out there with ABCDEF used already.
And rivers of code parsing and generating the same ABCDEF. > What do you propose to do about that? I think the proposals either to have the six "hexalphadigits" or the sixteen "hexdigits" or the 256 "bytedigits" are doomed to have about as much usage as the equally well-intentioned Unicode LS and PS.
