Re: &xnnnn;
Christopher R. Maden (crm@eps.inso.com)
Mon, 12 May 1997 14:37:13 GMT
From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crm@eps.inso.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:37:13 GMT
Message-Id: <199705121437.OAA25073@phaser.EBT.COM>
To: www-html@w3.org
In-reply-to: <5406011810051997/A92892/REDMS1/11B554810300*@MHS> (message from Misha Wolf on Sat, 10 May 1997 18:01:06 +0000 (GMT))
Subject: Re: &xnnnn;
[Misha Wolf]
> 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;
XML also dealt with this issue; as a result, a proposed technical
corrigendum to SGML is being considered this week to allow references
of the form &#Xhhhh; to refer to hexadecimal character numbers. HTML
should permit whatever format is finalized in the SGML TC.
-Chris
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