Re: &xnnnn;

Misha Wolf (misha.wolf@reuters.com)
Mon, 12 May 1997 13:58:24 +0000 (GMT) 

Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:58:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
Subject: Re: &xnnnn;
In-Reply-To: 
To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>, Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
Message-Id: <1224581312051997/A02892/REDMS1/11B5637A1700*@MHS>

I meant:

   &#xnnnn;

Misha

>At the HTML WG meeting, I hope to help sort out the various i18n-related 
>errors in Cougar.  This mail deals with one point which is a proposal rather 
>than a bug report.
>
>As:
>
>1.  the Cougar document character set is ISO 10646/Unicode, and
>
>2.  that standard uses a hexadecimal character numbering scheme, and
>
>3.  not many people are good at doing hexadecimal-to-decimal conversion in 
>    their heads,
>
>it would be helpful to allow hex NCRs.  It would be best to follow the XML 
>syntax for this and follow the "&" with an "x".  All of these represent the 
>same character:
>
>   A
>
>   &65;
>
>   &x41;  
>
>Note: ISO 10646/Unicode allows more than four hex digits and so
implementations 
>should be built to cope with NCRs such as "&xnnnnn;".  This does not mean that

>implementations have to, from day one, have the ability to render characters 
>beyond U+FFFF.  Implementations are *always* allowed to show a "misssing
glyph" 
>symbol in place of a character they cannot render.
>
>Misha


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