Re: Numeric character references and ISO-2022 (was: ISO/IEC 10646 as

Ned Freed (NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM)
Sat, 6 May 95 18:25:54 EDT

> > Yet people here have been talking about using character sets based on
> > ISO 2022 as document character sets.

> I don't think so. People 'here' (on html-wg) have been talking about
> using ISO-2022 as the character encoding scheme, not the document
> character set. In fact, the observation was that it was perfectly
> reasonable to use ISO-2022 as the character encoding scheme even while
> ISO-10646 was the document character set.

Fair enough. Its quite possible I got the wrong impression -- there has been a
lot of traffic on this topic and things have gotten a bit blurry in my mind.

> To answer your finaly question, then, "the idea that character sets
> based on ISO 2022 can be used as document character sets" is simply
> wrong.

And this is a perfectly acceptable answer as far as I'm concerned. I just
wanted to be sure I knew the right answer.

Ned