That is a complete, utter red herring. - There are hundreds of default-ignorable code points, valid in XML, that won't show at all in your browser. - There are hundreds of thousands of reserved code points, valid in XML, that won't show anything but a box in your browser. - Aside from them, if you are like most people, you don't have fonts that fully cover Unicode, tens of thousands of characters, that won't show anything but a box in your browser. - There are hundreds of combining marks which, if in sequences, cannot be recognized in most browsers.
This thread is getting tiresome. Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:14:05 -0700 > Mark Davis ☕ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote: > > > I disagree. If legibility were an issue, then XML could have still > > allowed NCRs for them. > > It wouldn't help if you looked at the text in a browser. > > Richard. > > >