Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets from Ian Young on 1996-12-01 (www-html@w3.org from December 1996)

From: Ian Young <imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:38:21 GMT
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <9612011138.AA21041@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk>

Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> wrote:
>    ISO8879 names for Windows CP 1252 80-9F (128-160) entities: 83
[...]
>    8B (139) -- ? -- guilsinglleft &laquo;
>    9B (155) -- ? -- guilsinglright &raquo;

As others pointed out, these are double.
The names  &lsaquo; and &rsaquo; respectively seem to have some
support. They are certainly the names one would expect given the
other quote entity names.
Are there any instances of other names being used for them in
SGMLish places?

I.

Received on Sunday, 1 December 1996 06:36:24 UTC