- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-0002@earth.li>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:08:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
At 2001-01-25T16:23-0800, Russell O'Connor wrote:- > Actually, Numeric character references refering to ISO 10646 only began > with HTML 4.0. But who's counting. > > For HTML 2.0, and HTML 3.2, the first 128 characters (0-127) refered to > ISO 646, and the last 128 characters (128-255) refered to ECMA-94 Right > Part of Latin Alphabet Nr. 1. ... Well something like that. Aha, yes. This is a case of the SGML declarations not quite matching the prose. To be fair, RFC 1866's references to ISO 10646 are largely in the context of extensions to and future versions of HTML, but it does nevertheless clearly state that all character references should correspond to ISO 10646. The (IMHO) rather vague prose of REC-html32 doesn't seem to address the subject at all. Is this minor confusion a result of lack of cooperation between SGML and Unicode back in 1995, or just a convenient semi-arbitrary decision? Tim Bagot
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