Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Fri, 5 May 95 23:47:21 EDT

>Even if we do specify 10646 as the document character set (which I'm
>against for 2.0), we would definitely need a conformance clause that
>says that conforming agents don't need to support numeric entities
>above 255. There just isn't enough 10646 support out there (in the
>OS's and fonts).

Ignoring them is another way of supporting them. It is perfectly legal
behaviour.