Pete Cordell wrote:
> Original Message From: "Elliotte Harold"
>
>> Perhaps there's an Amharic or Cambodian keyboard out there somewhere,
>> but I really doubt any keyboard contain any characters added in
>> Unicode 4.0 and beyond.
>
> I've seen East Asians entering some oriental font (I couldn't tell
> which) using a standard US QWERTY keyboard. So just because there isn't
> a lump of plastic out there with the right characters on it doesn't mean
> the characters can't be entered.
>
I wasn't saying that, but it was suggested (by someone else) that having
the characters available on a keyboard was a good criterion for
establishing which characters we must support.
My point was merely that XML 1.0 already meets and exceeds that criterion.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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