Re: LANG= for character-mapping

>I would even go further: Switching of character encodings with something
>like markup inside HTML will never be done. It is very clumsy to handle
>and absolutely not necessary. Character sets can already be switched
>on

it is worse than that. Given the SGML declaration for HTML, it is also
illegal to switch character sets.

SGML does prodice methods for using ISO-2022 encodings, but they are
hoplessly difficult to use.

Received on Wednesday, 24 July 1996 06:48:26 UTC