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  • From: "John.Cowan" <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
  • To: Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Tab support for nu.xom.Serializer?
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:17:49 -0400

Michael Kay scripsit:

> It's an old debate whether characters have meaning. Unicode says they do:
> which is why two characters can "look the same" and still have different
> codes.

Well, no. Unicode doesn't assign meaning as such to characters, but it's
true that a character is not just its appearance: it has other properties
than that. When Unicode assigns two different codes to the same abstract
character, it's for reasons of backward compatibility with other encodings.

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