Re: [tlug] japanese encoding question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com> writes:

    Edward> then you can use character entities for characters that
    Edward> are not representable in the current character set.  That
    Edward> would solve more potential ambiguity problems if you want
    Edward> to use uncommon characters.

Or force you to not use them at all.  Unicode omits, more or less
deliberately, many characters in practical use.  For example, either
Fujitsu's or NEC's corporate set includes not only composed Roman
numerals, but _circled_ versions of them.  Last I checked they are not
in Unicode (but I'm not really up to 3.0 yet, and don't have the
reference handy).

In general, character entities are not a panacea; really they should
be avoided where possible, except for a few cases like NBSP that are
needed for visual distinctness.

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