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Re: http charset labelling

Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> Thu, 08 February 1996 08:19 UTC

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>Because of duplicated shape of 'A' for Latin and Greek capital
>letter 'A' and alpha, and because of duplicated encoding of Big5,
>encoding information, in general, is no fix for unique conversion
>from shape on a paper to internal code.
 
Nor should there be. People map from a glyph to a *character*, which
is quite different to a character code. I have enough trouble mapping
some glyphs to characters. God forbid that I have to memorize the
character codes as well!

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