Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets

From: Keld J|rn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
Date: Tue Nov 26 1996 - 20:04:26 EST


Misha Wolf writes:

> If we are considering Web pages using Windows Code Pages, in which
> illegal numeric character references have been used for characters
> in the range 80-9F (decimal 128-159) then there will be no clash
> with anything in Unicode as these values do not represent characters
> in Unicode or, for that matter, in ISO 8859-X. A permissive browser
> will simply map these to the expected characters.

Well, the control characters of ISO 6429 is part of 10646,
and thus you cannot use cp1252 codepage values there, I think

keld



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