- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:32:42 +0100
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Cyril [SMTP:cyril@chat.ru] > > <META name = "keywords" content = > "&Alpha-el;&pi-el;&omicron-el;&kappa-el;&alpha-el;&lambda-el;&upsilon-el;& > pi-el;&sigma-el;&iota-el;&sigmaf-el;, > &?-he;&?-he;&?-he;&?-he;&?-he;, apocalypse, > &a-fr;&p-fr;&o-fr;&c-fr;&a-fr;&l-fr;&y-fr;&p-fr;&s-fr;&e-fr;, > &O-ru;&te-ru;&ka-ru;&er-ru;&o-ru;&ve-ru;&ie-ru;&en-ru;&i-ru;&ie-ru;, > ..."> > How could you do this otherwise? > [DJW:] <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="keywords" lang="el" content="...."> <meta name="keywords" lang="fr" content="....."> ..... (with the content being directly in the character set, not as entity macros.) Note that the addition of new entity names has effectively been ahandoned because of their proliferation; I can't see that decision being reversed. I also concur with the point that they are just macros for the &# forms and have no intrinsic meaning to the system. You can probably define your own with XML. Also, HTML has never been US-ASCII (it was devised by an Englishman in Switzerland!). Current HTML is Unicode. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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