- From: <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:20:03 +0100 (MET)
- To: Misha Wolf <MISHA.WOLF@reuters.com>
- Cc: www-html <www-html@w3.org>, www-international <www-international@w3.org>, Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Misha Wolf wrote: > If we are considering Web pages using Windows Code Pages, in which > illegal numeric character references have been used for characters > in the range 80-9F (decimal 128-159) then there will be no clash > with anything in Unicode as these values do not represent characters > in Unicode or, for that matter, in ISO 8859-X. A permissive browser > will simply map these to the expected characters. I think it is bad practice to specify how a browser should deal with 'illegal' input or cases; it is much better to fix your protocol so that these cases can be detected, rather than guessed at. DW.
Received on Wednesday, 27 November 1996 03:36:20 UTC