Unicode Mail List Archive: RE: Exemplar Characters (original) (raw)

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It isn't the question. The text says "The exemplar character set contains
the commonly used letters for a given modern form of a language", and
continues with "It is not a complete set of letters used for a language".

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: Exemplar Characters
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> I tend to think of this as a religious war. There will
> always be those
> who feel English can be written perfectly well with straight
> ASCII, and
> others who feel it cannot be written properly without curly quotes and
> arrows and symbols and at least four types of dashes and every Latin
> letter used in a loanword or name that appears in an English sentence.
> [1] These two groups will never agree on what the "exemplar"
> characters
> for a given language are.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California, USA
> [1] http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/dougslaw.html
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