Re: Character Entity Reference for Single Quote.

> 
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Tim Bagot wrote:
> 
> > This is incorrect. Numeric character references refer to ISO 10646 (which
> > conveniently corresponds to ISO 8859-1 for the first 256 characters)
> > whatever the document's character encoding, and have done since at least
> > HTML 2.0. Some browsers were (are?) somewhat broken in this respect, but I
> > would be very surprised indeed by the existence of one that broke on ASCII
> > characters.
> 
> 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.

There's some not-too-obvious language in the HTML 2.0 spec that basically 
tries to say: if you are going to go beyond ISO 8859-1, use ISO 10646
for numeric character references. (Read the notes.) Also note the RFC on 
internationalization of HTML; the handwriting was on the wall well
before the HTML 4.0 spec came out.

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    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)

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