Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 00:50:05 +0100
From: Lars-Gunnar Olsson <Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Message-Id: <199310222350.AA16498@pinus.slu.se>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: <> One Last Time
I obviously missed including the uri list in my answer to Dirk Herr-Hoyman re
his support of the use of {}. It is mainly of interest to those of you who are
unaware of the sinister art of european 7 bit national character encodings.
My answer to Dirk's query at the end of this message is that < and > is as far
as I know not used in any of the national ASCII variants.
/L-G
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From: hoymand@joe.uwex.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
To: Lars-Gunnar Olsson <Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Subject: Re: <> One Last Time
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 09:09:01 -0500
> Dirk> If we were to change the proposal, I would support the use of {}. These
> Dirk> are not widely used in plain text. The only problem, is that I'm
>afraid
> Dirk> the horse may be out of the barn already on this one. And, I think one
> Dirk> poor standard is better than 2 good ones ;-)
>
>If this is going to be changed, then {} as well as [] are poor choices. The
>reason for this is that they represent alphabetic characters in the national
>variants of ASCII. This is true in at least the Nordic countries (Sweden,
>Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland) and Germany.
>
>/L-G
Please send your response to uri@bunyip.com. I would prefer that you send
this, rather than me.
This is indeed a valid concern, and leads me back to thinking that <> is
just the thing to do. Are <> used in any of these languages too? I hope
not, at this will make the use of SGML tedious, to say the least.
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