> > 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.
> > 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.
Yes; once clearly explained, the concept of a single document character
set seems a clean and workable solution.
> 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.
Lou, I think I hear you saying there must be no nasty surprises and
numeric character references must continue to give the same printed
characters they did before?
Which, I gather, would be the situation if numeric character references
were to refer to 10646 because all characters in Latin-1 have exactly
the same code positions in Latin-1 and 10646, by design.
So, a change to the wording which had precisely no effect on current
documents but set us up better for the future would be a worthwhile
change, no?
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