- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:41:54 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:28a -0800 03/23/99, Alan G. Isaac wrote: >I'm looking at > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html > >Why is it   and   but — and – ? I've found that curious as well. >Why are — and – equivalent to — and – >instead of — and ˜ ? > >Why are no character entity references below   listed on >this page? Because #128-#159 do not exist, have never existed, and will never exist. ISO-8859-1 is NOT windows-1252. Take care that you do not confuse them. As for why 128-159 are not used in Latin1, I haven't found a definitive answer, but my educated guess is that it was for compatibility with 8-bit ASCII, where that range is for the "C1" control characters. (The 8-bit ASCII standard was later withdrawn -- I think it was ANSI X3.41 or X3.64, neither of which can even be found on the ANSI web site...) -Walter http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charsetqa.html
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