- From: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:05:27 -0600 (CST)
- To: "Peter O.B. Mikes" <pom@llnl.gov>
- cc: www-international@w3.org
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Peter O.B. Mikes wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Klaus Weide wrote: > > > > > It is certainly much easier to make a Web clients able to decode UTF-8 > > > to locally available character sets, than to upgrade all client > > > machines so that they have fonts available to display all of the 10646 > > > characters. > > Besides, character set is not function of a language, > math, APL, music, all have different need for character sets > and character sets mixtures which can exceed 10646 Hmm. Text documents with such characters could currently be exchanged in Internet protocols as text/* other than text/html (assuming agreement on a charset parameter value). My understanding is that those characters connot be used in HTML as defined by the i18n draft - unless they are mapped to a private zone (and there is agreement between communication partners). Klaus
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