On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:00:00PM +0900, Martin Duerst wrote: > No, sorry, wrong, a "charset" includes the coding mechanism > down to the bit/byte level. I am reminded of the now historical technical rant, "Character Set": Considered Harmful: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/charset-harmful.html What I'd take away for the novice reader is that "character set" is a slightly misleading term, and "charset" as an abbreviation really means something more like "a name of a system for encoding characters", not "a set of characters". -- Albert Lunde albert-lunde@northwestern.edu atlunde@panix.com (new address for personal mail) albert-lunde@nwu.edu (old address)Received on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 02:02:40 UTC
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