Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Thu, 4 May 95 04:21:59 EDT
>> This is a most inventive answer to the problem, but Roy has stated,
>> quite strongly, that only ISO-8859-1 will be standard.
>
>Well perhaps my command of english fails, but I don't believe rough
>concensus means everyone agrees. I don't have any direct opinion, but
>my indirect opinion is that the many folks who seem to understand
>the issues still don't agree... that wouldn't meet my test of
>rough concensus.
1) The default will be ISO 8859-1
- This is a firm decision.
2) Clients should support the charset parameter
- This is a firm decision. Timing is the only issue.
3) The document character set of HTML should be ISO 10646
- Rough concensus on this.