- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:03:21 +0300
On Jun 28, 2007, at 14:51, K?i?tof ?elechovski wrote: > I admit that the fact that the ligature ? is not > included in the character set (and, consequently, that the > character set > ISO-8859-1 cannot be used for encoding French text, which I find > kind of > stunning because of the popularity of the French language) provides > a much > simpler explanation to the observable phenomenon. This discussion is not relevant to the WHATWG or HTML5. HTML5 is defined in terms of Unicode and Unicode covers both English and French (and quite a bit more). Anyone is free to use all that expressiveness straight by encoding documents as UTF-8. Entities or legacy encodings don't add any expressiveness. They just expand to Unicode. The details of how this is handled is constrained by legacy?not by political correctness. P.S. Before anyone slaps me for being politically incorrect or insensitive, I'd like to point out that my native language uses characters whose entity names are biased towards German terminology. But this isn't a slightest technical problem. Let's move on. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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