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> After considering the above, I think that overall, it is probably
> best to specify a single document character set and to make that
> character set ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. If it were not for the problem
> of translating numeric character references, one could justify allowing
> multiple document character sets. Further, one cannot specify that
> all numeric character references refer to one document character set
> (e.g., ISO/IEC 10646), and then specify another document character set
> for the entity in which such references occur. At least one can't do
> so and remain consistent with SGML.
I agree with you up to the point of the specific universal character set.
The default character set must remain 8859-1 and numeric character
references must continue to map to 8859-1, this has been the
default since the creation of HTML and must continue to be the default.
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Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/
Netscape Communications Corp.