- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:12:02 +0100
- To: "David G. Durand" <dgd@cs.bu.edu> (David G. Durand), w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 05:22 AM 22/10/96 +0100, David G. Durand" (David G. Durand wrote: >PS does anyone else have an opinion on this? > Yes, but note the time: some of us sleep during the period between midnight and 6am! You have to wait for us to catch up with the arguments, by which time you and Gavin have normally exhausted them. One thing that worries me is that any decisions taken by the XML community are likely to be valid for less than one week! On 20th November the i18n community is going to discuss internationalization of MIME headers. If they decide that MIME headers need extending, and we have said that they should be codes <127 then we might have egg on our faces. Incidentally note the use of "codes less than <127". US-ASCII does not fly over this side of the pond. ISO-646:1991 might be more acceptable (this is the ASCII conformant variant rather than the 1983 version referenced by 8879). If you want 8-bit code then it has to be LATIN-1 so that it is compatible with the first 255 characters of 10646. I would suggest we hold off on making a decision until we know the outcome of the i18n meeting. Martin Bryan PS I am a well defined character known by different numbers that have allocated by a wide range of commercial, government and social organizations! ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
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