- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:39:21 +0000
- To: "Christian Wolfgang Hujer" <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
On Friday 07 December 2001 00:20, Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote: [...] | | I recommend the use of ASCII only and encoding all Unicode characters | with a character number greater than 159 (128 to 159 are of no interest, | they are control characters and may not be used in XML documents anyway) | using their correspondig character entities, e.g. ü for the German u | Umlaut or Ą for the Polish A with "ogonek". | Hello Christian! I guess you have never used Cyrillic - as your advice (quoted above) is absolutely useless for Cyrillic-based alphabets. You should use ISO-8859-1 or its successor, ISO-8859-15, only when your page uses this character range. For all other cases, you should use Unicode (UTF-8). Unicode TTF fonts are widely available nowdays, so I see no problem with transition to Unicode. Windows 2000 has good support for Unicode, KDE (Linux, UNIX, FreeBSD) supports Unicode natively and I guess MacOS X too. So all major platforms completed migration and supporting *legacy* technics like ü for Umlaut make no sence anymore. Best Regards, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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