Re: International chars in HTML files from Geoff Narvronsen on 1996-01-16 (www-html@w3.org from January 1996)

From: Geoff Narvronsen <geoffryn@nfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:54:59 -0600
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <v01530501ad21d0655dcf@[1.1.1.1]>

>At 03:39 pm 1/15/96 -0500, murray@sq.com spake:
>>The &eacute; is not useless, it is simply redundant if you have
>>the ability to enter the character directly.  The use of named
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>   This would seem to be only true if the author is writing the HTML
>on a system that uses the ISO 8859-1 character set. This is not
>always true, notably in DOS systems.
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well, it seems to me that any halfway decent (descent?) browser would
convert them to viewable US (or wherever you happen to be) ASCII before
displaying it on the screen..

i know netscape does..it's the only browser i've ever REALLY used, though,
so i don't know how common it is with others..

GeoffryN@nfocus.com

Received on Tuesday, 16 January 1996 17:52:40 UTC