- From: Christopher R. Maden <crism@exemplary.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:43:43 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
[Masayasu Ishikawa] >crism@exemplary.net (Christopher R. Maden) wrote: > >> However, π will only work in HTML 4.0 browsers; π will only >> work in some browsers if the document character encoding is defined as >> UTF-8 or another full Unicode encoding; > >To clarify: numeric character references should work regardless of >character encoding. π SHALL be interpreted as "GREEK SMALL >LETTER PI" even if the document is encoded in US-ASCII (or whatever). >Indeed there are some user agents which incorrectly treat NCRs >differently depending on character encoding, but please note that >such behavior is non-conforming. Yes. The behavior nonetheless exists - Netscape 4 (4.0 on Macintosh and 4.something on Solaris) is where I have encountered this. MSIE on Windows behaves properly; I don't know about on Macintosh. Lynx, of course, performs properly. Designing a Web page based on SHALL is a fun exercise, but not very useful. WILL is the relevant word for Joyce's question. >Some pre-XML browsers support hexadecimal numeric character references, >sush as Alis Technologies' Tango browser. Tango does display π >as "GREEK SMALL LETTER PI". Tango added that feature after the XML WG developed the &#x convention. I didn't say that only XML browsers supported it, but that only browsers developed after XML did. Supporting something before it exists is difficult. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Solutions Architect Exemplary Technologies One Embarcadero Center, Ste. 2405 San Francisco, CA 94111
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