Re: iso 8859 or escape sequencies?

Bert Bos ([email protected])
Mon, 11 Apr 1994 21:35:17 +0100 (METDST)

|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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