[tei-council] [Fwd: Re: Review of WD-NonStandardCharacters.xml]

Christian Wittern cwittern at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 19:42:15 EDT 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
> [Apologies in advance if this has already been discussed and I
>  haven't read it yet. I just came back from a TEI Seminar at which
>  I was basically unable to read mail. Thus my Inbox is swamped.]
>
>
> I am confused by the recommendation in the 2nd half of the first
> paragraph of
> http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/WD.html#D25-50:
>
>    Therefore, unlike all other codepoints defined by the Unicode
>    Standard, PUA codepoints should not be used directly in documents
>    intended for blind interchange. Instead of using PUA codepoints
>    directly in the document content, entity references should be
>    used. This will make it easier for receiving parties to find out
>    what PUA characters are used in a document and where possible
>    codepoint clashes with local use on the receiving site might
>    occur.
>
> I had thought the preferred way to use codepoints from the PUA was to
> use a <g> and point to a <char> that included a mapping to a PUA.
> Isn't the above sort of like the 2nd best way to use 'em? (The worst
> being to enter them directly.)
>   
Yep, good spot.  This is a leftover from a very early version, which I 
meant to axe, but obviously missed.   However, as of this moment 
(2007-09-25, 8:41 JST), this is gone from the Guidelines.

Christian

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