Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Thu, 4 May 95 21:51:20 EDT
>It implies an interpretation of numeric character references and an SGML
>declaration that shouldn't break when used with other MIME charsets, but I
>kind of agree that implementers really don't have enought detail to work
>with it unless they read between the lines a lot (or read the WG archives
>;).
Yes, this is partly why I thought we should leave it for 2.0. We may
understand it, but we must also make others understand it too, which
may be considerably harder.
>It may lead experiementation with other charsets in an interoperable
>direction, by avoiding a legacy of documents with incompatible numeric
>character references. (SGML mavens? is this the main issue it impacts?)
This and giving a formal base for processing multilingual data in any
character set that is a subset of ISO 10646.