- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:58:24 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>, Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
I meant: &#xnnnn; Misha >At the HTML WG meeting, I hope to help sort out the various i18n-related >errors in Cougar. This mail deals with one point which is a proposal rather >than a bug report. > >As: > >1. the Cougar document character set is ISO 10646/Unicode, and > >2. that standard uses a hexadecimal character numbering scheme, and > >3. not many people are good at doing hexadecimal-to-decimal conversion in > their heads, > >it would be helpful to allow hex NCRs. It would be best to follow the XML >syntax for this and follow the "&" with an "x". All of these represent the >same character: > > A > > &65; > > &x41; > >Note: ISO 10646/Unicode allows more than four hex digits and so implementations >should be built to cope with NCRs such as "&xnnnnn;". This does not mean that >implementations have to, from day one, have the ability to render characters >beyond U+FFFF. Implementations are *always* allowed to show a "misssing glyph" >symbol in place of a character they cannot render. > >Misha ===
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