Re: Revised language on: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Glenn Adams (glenn@stonehand.com)
Tue, 9 May 95 12:52:03 EDT

Date: Tue, 9 May 95 11:53:56 EDT
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>

> Does the HTTP charset have to be a subset of 10646?
>
>No. It can be anything. Making 10646 the doc charset doesn't place
>any requirements on the HTTP charset.

Except that all the characters in the document have to be within ISO
10646.

Not so. SGML allows for data characters which have no corresponding character
number in the document character set. See the recent discussion on this
topic.

Glenn