- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:39:16 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Peter Sheerin <pete@petesguide.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Peter Sheerin wrote: > > > > > > Also, the set of characters specified in the current HTML DTDs is > > > not really sufficient to display many important characters, [...] > > > > HTML4 references ISO10646 which means it has every UNICODE character. > > Ditto XML. Do you want HTML to have actual _named entities_ for all > > 16000+ characters? That simply doesn't scale. > > This is true, but some method is needed for specifying the minimum set of > characters that UAs should (must?) be able to render. CSS references ISO10646 too, normatively. This means UAs have to render _all_ UNICODE characters. Assuming they have a font available, anyway. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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