Re: Charset labelling (Was: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Fri, 28 Apr 95 13:49:27 EDT
>I don't think so. This is fundamentally broken. If you wish to do
>code switching within an SGML document, then you need to use the
>code extension techniques already defined in ISO 8879:1986 Annex
>E.3 Device-Independent Code Extension and based on ISO 2022. Using
>this technique also requires the use of markup suppression as
>specified in clause 9.7.
Most people acknowledge that this is somewhat difficult to use...
>If you're seriously thinking about doing code switch inside a
>document or entity, you really should be thinking about using
>Unicode.
Absolutely. This cannot be emphasised enough.