- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:30:36 +0200
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>, WWW-International List <www-international@w3.org>
Jonathan Rosenne writes: > If I am using software which properly supports European languages, I > have no control over the character coding although it would be safe to > assume it would use precomposed characters, at least for those which > were standardized when the software was written. But if I use software > that does not support European languages, for example American, East > Asian or Israeli software, I would have to type composite characters and > the system would not compose them. Since we are discussing an > international environment, we do not know where the user is and what > software he is using and we cannot assume it will follow European > conventions. I believe that since we are talking international environments, and the HTML language, we are using ISO/IEC 10646 as prescribed in the HTML specifications, and then coding characters according to that. The only way defined in 10646 to encode LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE is is as 00E1, other ways of defining this character is not defined in 10646. Keld
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