Re: Followup on I18N comments

Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl)
Tue, 29 Nov 94 14:13:46 EST

Sandra Martin O'Donnell writes:
|Bert Bos writes:
| . . .
| Until we can confidently specify Unicode as the character set for
| HTML, we'll have to support as many entities as possible. I'd say we
| should simply include the whole ISO set. Maybe HTML 4.0 or 5.0 can
| drop all entities, except for group (3).
|
|Ummm, I'm not aware of entity names other than those for
|ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). What do you mean when you recommend
|including "the whole ISO set"? Do you know of some other
|names? If so, I'd like to learn more about them.

I know of the following:

ISOlat1 ISOlat2 ISOamsa ISOamsb ISOamsc ISOamsn ISOamso
ISOamsr ISObox ISOcyr1 ISOcyr2 ISOdia ISOgrk1 ISOgrk2 ISOgrk3
ISOgrk4 ISOnum ISOpub ISOtech

It's a lot of work to implement them all... (not difficult, just
boring).

Bert

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