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::* However, you're right in that the 0x prefix breaks table column sorting. I didn't even realize that. I've adjusted [[Letterlike Symbols]] to just give the four character hexadecimal value, without any prefix, and it sorts properly now. The table makes it clear these are hex, so no prefix is needed. And no-prefix is also more universal.
::Make sense? Anyone else have anything they'd like to say? I'll start attacking more pages Real Soon Now, if there are no objections. —<small>[[User:DragonHawk|DragonHawk]] ([[User talk:DragonHawk|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/DragonHawk|hist]])</small> 06:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
== continuation of discussion ==
(This part of the discussion took place after it was moved to a separate page by DragonHawk on 22 June 2009.)
I continue to disagree with the removal of the U+ prefix from the hex column. It does not prevent sorting (though other prefixes do) and it is not terribly difficult to copy just the hex digits to another context when doing copy and paste. In favor of keeping the U+ prefix is that it is used by the Unicode standard to designate a Unicode character.
In addition, there is the problem of choosing a font. Some Unicode characters are so obscure that probably nobody would know whether they had been rendered using Bitstream Vera Serif or Century Schoolbook L, but a standard for describing Unicode characters must deal in a reasonable way with all Unicode characters, not just the obscure ones. I suggest that the default font for displaying a Unicode character should be the [[FreeSerif]] font distributed with OpenOffice. It seems to match the images published in the Unicode standard reasonably well, and it contains quite a lot of characters. Of course, for the obscure characters we are lucky to find any font which contains the character; I am only suggesting that [[FreeSerif]] be the display font when it is a reasonable choice.
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