- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:44:42 -0500 (EST)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Delacour wrote:
> No such thing is needed; the big step towards internationalization is
> already taken and it is Unicode <http:www.unicode.org/>. All you need
> to do is declare UTF-8 as your character set and use unicode entities
> such as &x03EE;
To be more precice, you don't need to declare UTF-8 as your character
encoding (and probably shouldn't), to use these entities. No matter what
your character encoding is, &#xxxx; will refer to the Unicode character
number xxxx.
(Aside: Note the subtle difference between character encoding and
character set.)
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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