<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 April 2015 at 23:41, Douglas McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@mathemaesthetics.com" target="_blank">doug@mathemaesthetics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ross Moore wrote -<br>
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> On 27/04/2015, at 10:05 AM, Douglas McKenna wrote:<br>
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</span><span class="">>> Given that the number of TeX input files using ^^u is likely miniscule, and the number of those that follow the ^^u or ^^U with four or six hex digits is even smaller, it seemed like a worthwhile benefit vs. </span><br>
Regardless, as the future unfolds, more and more input files are going to be UTF-8 text files, and the need to escape 4-digit or 6-digit Unicode code points in a pure ASCII environment is going to gradually disappear.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That isn't at all clear, I don't see any evidence that the equivalent &#....; notation in XML is getting less used. For runs of natural language text then clearly using character data directly makes more sense<br></div><div> but to get specific symbols accessing by code point often makes sense. <br><br>To get a math bold A, It is much easier to tell someone to enter ^^^^^1d400 than to tell them how<br></div><div>to enter 𝐀 in whatever system they are using.<br><br></div><div>David<br><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br></div></div>