RE: Glossary terms - a start

(As outreach and for more completeness) would it be useful to put out a call to the mailing list for terms that are misunderstood / not understood? People could submit the explanation as well as the term if they wanted.
 
Deborah

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	Subject: Glossary terms - a start
	
	


	I went through the character encoding tutorial [1] and pulled out the following terms we could link to a glossary:
	
	User agent
	Unicode
	Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
	Supplementary characters
	Character set
	Character encoding
	Coded character set
	Code points
	Character escape
	Document character set
	MIME type
	Standards mode
	Quirks mode
	XML declaration
	HTTP header
	Charset
	ASCII
	ANSI
	BOM
	NCR
	Character entity
	Compatability character
	Bidi
	Bidirectional text
	
	
	There are some explanations of these terms in the tutorial.  We should also harmonise with other definitions, esp. CharMod and Unicode Standard. We should also point to stuff we have that defines in more detail, eg. Document character set FAQ.
	
	I'll send out more such lists when I get a chance to go through the lang tutorial and the techniques doc.
	
	Over to Tex and Andrew for now to take these to the next stage.
	
	Cheers,
	RI
	
	
	[1] http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc.html

	
	
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