- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:06:01 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[C. M. Sperberg-McQueen:] | Actually, two declarations were prepared, one which referred to 10646 | and defined a wide character set using ERCS syntax (or so I understand | -- haven't seen it, myself), and another one which referred to ISO | 646. The text originally contained the 10646 declaration, but during | final preparation it became clear that the *other* declaration had to | be used in processing. Between the declaration that worked, and | another that did not work, there seemed to be no seriously debatable | choice, and so the 646 declaration was inserted. What was overlooked | in the heat of the moment (this was getting on toward the absolute | deadline) was that the machine in question was an ASCII machine, not a | Unicode machine; of course the 646 declaration was required for | processing. But the canonical SGML declaration should use Unicode. In other words, I got confused at 5 in the morning when I couldn't get Jade to produce the final RTF on a Win95 machine and I put in the wrong declaration because that's the one that worked. (In case anyone was thinking that this was Michael or Tim's fault.) Jon
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