- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:35:30 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: > Its interesting both for the way it reflects current work (eg, use of RFC 3066bis) and the way it seems to diverge from it (either I don't understand what they mean by a 'mapping', or else they propose character abuse and don't understand that XML has a single document character set) > The problem is, I assume, that they don't have decent editors which let them write in classical Greek; so they transliterate it using (eg) betacode or Perseus, but then *also* want to display the results as real Greek on screen or paper. There is some mixup here with the characters encoded in the XML and the characters in fonts or whatever. I bet 4 fours in a darkened room with a wet towel over the head and Neel's company could resolve the questions.... -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 OSS Watch: JISC Open Source Advisory Service http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
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