Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> In particular, the W3C has just released a draft set of unified
> character entities from XHTML, MathML, and the ISO sets: see the draft at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/ and the unified
> list at http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent .
> 
> Once you have stripped comments and entities with more than one character
> in them, you have a list of 2114 short, plausible names for 1509 useful
> Unicode characters.  There are duplicates for historical reasons, like
> ContourIntegral and conint -- longer dupes could be stripped if you
> saw fit.

I think that this is an excellent idea! Would everyone be happy with
using the entity names instead of the unwieldy Unicode names?

If so, then the remaining question is which syntax are we going to use
in strings for that? I suggest something like \φ, as in:

"The greek letter \φ is the 21st letter in the Greek alphabet."

Any other suggestions? I'm looking forward to a nice lexical syntax
flamefest. ;-)

Albert

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