Re: Entities in HTML 4.01

• From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
• Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:38:09 -0500 (EST)
• To: Irve <irve@metal.ee>
• cc: www-html-editor@w3.org, W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000307153147.2876A-100000@bacon.math.uwaterloo.ca>

> > I mentioned this in early sept on www-html.  I don't know if it counts as
> > an error in HTML 4.01.  It is more like an ommission
> > 
> > <!ENTITY Zcaron  CDATA "&#381;"  -- latin capital letter Z with caron,
> >                                     U+017D ISOlat2 -->
> > <!ENTITY zcaron  CDATA "&#382;"  -- latin small letter z with caron,
> >                                     U+017E ISOlat2 -->
> > 
> > should be added to -//W3C//ENTITIES Special//EN//HTML
> > So that all CP1252 characters have named entities
> > See
> > <http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mvcorks/code/charsets/named-entities-images.html>
> 
> has this question been settled or answered in any way?
> there's about million people use the letter but still :)
> -- 
> Irve | http://www.hot.ee/irve
>  Mostly harmless

I've received nothing about this problem from the W3C.  The ommission
still exists in XHTML 1.0

-- 
Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
       <http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
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life is often undervalued.'' -- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

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