Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Thu, 4 May 95 17:34:51 EDT

Eric Sink:
>"The specified document character set for HTML 2.0 documents is ISO 10646.
However, conforming applications may support only ISO 8859-1, a subset of
ISO 10646. In fact, at the time of this writing, virtually all known
implementations do indeed only support the ISO 8859-1 subset."

No. Not for 2.0, please. As I said earlier, we have long since agreed
that 10646 is for a later version.

Regards,

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