- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:49:16 +0200
- To: "Albert Lunde by way of Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>" <Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
"Albert Lunde by way of Martin J. Duerst " wrote: > Numeric character references are NOT (correctly) interpreted according > to the character encoding (a.k.a. charset) used to store or transmit > the document, but rather according to the SGML "Document Character > Set" which is always Unicode, or I think more precisely, ISO-10646. The two have equivalent character repertoires and code points. > So with user agents that pay any attention to the standards, you can > use Unicode numeric character references in a document represented in > ANY character encoding. (Getting usable fonts is not solved by this > fact, however.) Yes, (and correct, though it does mean that fonts can use whatever encoding they like so long as there is a way to map it to Unicode; for example if you regularly get Russian pages n three different encodings, you don't need three fonts with the same glyphs but arranged differently, one for each encoding). > I forget what version of HTML/XML this started with, 2.0 -- Chris
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