Re: HTML 2.0 comments (First of two)

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Wed, 23 Nov 94 16:01:54 EST

This is an issue the WG will be taking up in San Jose. The current
DTD describes current practice, and Dan has remarked on why things
are the way they are on many occasions.

> Because there
is no agreement on the string names for code sets (ISO 8859-1
may be called any of

ISO8859-1
iso88591
Latin-1
8859-1
ISO-8859-1

or something else on individual systems), OSF created a registry

This was unnecessary; ISO Latin 1 has a Formal Public Identifier:
ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN

Regards,

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