Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Fri, 28 Apr 95 17:35:56 EDT

Albert writes:
>I was under the impression we needed this (10646 as the standard document
character set) for 2.0 in some form to resolve the question of numeric
character references, or else we needed to remove some language about other
charsets and make 2.0 talk about Latin-1 only.

I myself was under the impression that 2.0 does talk about Latin-1 only,
that there has been some confusion about what numeric charrefs are about,
but that the limitation to Latin-1 evades the issue. 10646 is for what
comes next (let's hope, 2.1).

Regards,

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