> > I suspect Frank considers meaning to be a semantic concept, not a visual. > > I also suspect that, but then if we pick a char it will be > undefined visually and its rendering (and TeX is essentially about > rendering) will need _always_ additional information about the context > (example: traditional idiograms in Japanese vs. simplified ones in > Chinese). I don't want to jump into the middle of this but to say that just today I came across an interesting document on this subject from May 1995 by Dan Connolly at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/charset-harmful that is formally an expired IETF draft. -- Bill