Draft, version 0.3.
I propose to make symbolic name (made of US-ASCII-characters like for characters below) for every non-us-ascii character. I propose this method as alternative way of characters presenting in HTML.
Character | Symbolic name |
---|---|
The yen sign, yuan sign, (¥) | ¥ |
The lowercase "a" character topped with a ring (å) | å |
The uppercase (capital) "A" character topped with a ring (Å) | Å |
£ | £ |
It is seems that my thoughts flow this way. If HTML-language is based on US-ASCII-text then it is quite HTML-ly to make ability to express everything in HTML with US-ASCII-characters.
In addition, I find it convenient when a World Wide Web character could have
an optional language attribute.
For example like this:
"&lowercase_a_French;"
or like that:
"&a-fr-FR;".
(It is like the HTML Language codes. See HTML 4.01 Specification, 8.1.1.) I think that such attribute is worth to be added to HTML.