- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:11:28 +0100 (BST)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: Rainer Ziener <ziener@tls-tautenburg.de>, www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>, mrengel <mrengel@tls-tautenburg.de>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Liam Quinn wrote: > There's nothing wrong with using the 8-bit ISO-8859-1 encoding of a letter > with an umlaut as long as you specify your charset as ISO-8859-1. but if you can, surely using available &entity; increases understandability for displays using other charsets? Even if they don't translate it but display it raw, the reader has a chance to figure out meaning. L. has been seeing a lot of &emdash; recently, as hundreds of years of typographic crud catch up with the web. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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