character sets

• From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
• Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 17:23:35 +1200
• To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
• Cc: www-html@www0.cern.ch
• Message-Id: <199407050523.AA01370@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>

Could someone please refresh my memory about the ways and means of
inserting special characters (eg s-cedilla) into HTML documents.  As
this character isn't part of the ISO Latin-1 set, how am I to
efficiently and sensibly code my Romanian pages?

The other Romanian web page
(http://www.polymtl.ca:8001/zuse/tavi/www/rom.html) seems to use
letter doubling (damn, I wish I could actually *speak* or read the
language :) to fake it, but this seems rather dubious given that a
very very large percentage of the world doesn't use Latin-1.

Have I just hit another Anglo-centric piece of the web, or is there a
perfectly simple fix which I just haven't cottoned on to?

Yours with baited breath [1],

Nat

[1] don't even think of asking what I am trying to catch :-)

Received on Tuesday, 5 July 1994 07:24:01 UTC