On 27/04/2001 18:40:41 Carl W. Brown wrote:
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> It would be even worse to list all the code points in both hex and decimal.
> It would create a lot of confusion. I just wish that the w3c folks have not
> introduced decimal character encoding in HTML. Nobody but geeks look at the
> HTML source.
Decimal Numeric Character References (NCRs) were, AFAIK, inherited
by HTML from SGML and, consequently, were not introduced by the W3C.
On the contrary, the W3C has encouraged hex NCRs by adding them to
HTML and by including them in XML from the start.
Misha
W3C I18N WG Chair
>
> Carl
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