Re: iso 8859 or escape sequencies?

Bert Bos <bert@let.rug.nl>
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 21:38:29 --100
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Subject: Re: iso 8859 or escape sequencies?
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 |Is there a reason to use the html "escape-sequencies" (&oumlaut for | 
 |etc.) for characters that are also in the iso 8859-1 character-set? Are 
 |there browswers that do not support the full iso8859 character set but 
 |do support the escape-sequencies?
 | -Timo H

There are several reasons:

- On many computers Latin-1 is not the default character set, so codes
  above 127 would be mapped incorrectly.
- Using the SGML entities ensures that the file can be e-mailed (see
  what became of your &oumlaut; above...)
- Browsers that cannot display the characters, can -- in principle --
  approximate them.

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