於 Jul 9, 2004 3:54 PM 時，Peter T. Daniels 提到：
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> So it's better to perpetuate an error than to correct it.
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Well, there definitely are times when it's too late (or too expensive)
to fix something. (I'm reminded of the mathematician Frege, who spent
his life preparing a monumental, two-volume opus on the logical
foundations of mathematics only to have the whole thing ripped to
shreds by a short letter from Bertrand Russell just as volume two was
in the final stages of printing.)
Perhaps in the earliest stages of Unicode it would have been possible
to try to push for a different word, but it's definitely too late now,
in that we've found that fixing even trivial naming problems in the
standard have an unexpectedly enormous cost. All we can do here -- as
we do wherever we find an error or infelicity in a name -- is to note
the fact that it's wrong as prominently as we can. Think of it as the
IT equivalent of pasting an erratum sheet on the inside back cover of
every copy published of a particular book.
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