- From: Aymeric Poulain Maubant <Aymeric.PoulainMaubant@enst-bretagne.fr>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:07:26 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
One upon a time esr@snark.thyrsus.com wrote : > There's been some discussion of additions to the entities table in the Cougar > draft <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Cougar/HTML.dtd>. > > As the maintainer of the terminfo databases, and co-maintainer of ncurses, > I'd like to urge that the special characters of the curses ACS series also be > included in the standard entities. This would have major functional and > portability benefits, enabling one of the most widely used extension-glyph > aets to be mapped directly to HTML. > > These characters are: > > upper left corner ACS_ULCORNER [...] and especially : > lantern symbol ACS_LANTERN Seems to me that some of this ACS stuff, and similar considerations, should be addressed in a more general study like ["HTML predefined icon-like symbols", (W3C Working Draft 15 Feb 1996)], before being included in any HTML DTD. <URL:http://www.w3.org:80/pub/WWW/TR/WD-wwwicn> Aymeric [who was a lurker on this list for months, and will try to say valuable things from now..]
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