>The real effects of this change would be to:
>
>(1) rationalize the use of numeric character references in a universal
>fashion (at least normatively speaking)
Yes.
>(2) provide a significant growth path to HTML applications that wish
>to begin exploiting non-Western European (8859-1) language capabilities,
>and do so in a standard fashion
Yes.
>(3) facilitate the use of DSSSL Lite and DSSSL (ISO/IEC 10179) which
>requires that all characters be expressable in terms of ISO/IEC 10646
Ahh. You caught this...
>(4) provide more consistency with newly developed national standards;
>e.g.,
>
> JIS X 0221 = Japanese National Standard based on ISO/IEC 10646
New information. This looks like an interesting development!
>(5) finally, this change would *not* necessarily change current
>behavior or practice
YES! This is a key feature of the solution. We get a good growth path
with little pain.
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So is my central idea is reasonable? Can we think about putting it
into 2.1? Dan?