- From: <Ad.Irvine@queens-belfast.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 13:14:52 EST
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
> I have not kept up with the most recent developments in HTML. > There was a lot of talk about helping us all pop out of the > ISO 8859-1 straitjacket, either by extending HTML or by add- > ing Unicode as a possible overall charset in the header. > > Was this just talk, or did something actually come of it? As far as I know, the only thing to reach the real world is multi- localised X-Mosaic. The X-Mosaic brower will look for an escape code sequence at the beginning of each HTML document loaded, and automatically load the code page so requested. For example, seeing "<ESC> - C", it will display the entire page in ISO 8859-3. See http://www.ntt.jp/Mosaic-l10n/faq.html for details. It's not Unicode heaven, but at least it offers *real* help to the people who need it. I wish *all* browsers could get their acts together and support this method! > Richard > goer@midway.uchicago.edu Aaron IRVINE csg0044@qub.ac.uk
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