Re: gnome-core / distributors

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:16:02PM +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:01:50AM +0900, KUSANO Takayuki wrote:
> 
> > > > not insert UTF-8 thingies in the files (IMO).  For the time being I'd
> > > > prefer SGML/XML ISO entities in the comments.
> > > I really doubt those entities exist for Han ideographics.
> > > And any non-latin name will be an horror if written using entities.
> > > Entites would be ok for names written in latin script only.
> > 
> >   How about writing '&#xHHHH;' for U+HHHH, or just use 'U+HHHH'.
> >   For example, I can write 草野 貴之 for my name.
> >   Yes, it seems cryptic, and :-)
> 
> Completly unreadable, indeed.

Any notation is going to be unreadable if it is not encoded in the
charset of the viewer. Some notations with some readability is, however
SGML entities as é, rfc1345 mnemonics  like &e' or sgml &#xxxx; entities.

keld