On Feb 16, 2008, at 18:30, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Dave Pawson wrote:
>> Elliotte. You mutter about Unicode changes/stability, just how
>> stable is this set of entities?
>
> Reasonably. We'd just need to agree that we won't have every entity
> everybody needs; just a reasonable set that a lot of people need.
And how do you get to pick those? There are a lot of people who
speak, say, Mandarin who might not have a computer right now but will
in a couple years' time. Do we ask them what they want or do we just
go ahead with the (for the most part, blatantly useless) set of
é and friends.
Maybe we should have a Rich White Men Consortium that would make
"reasonable" specification?
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