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Re: lynx-dev Display of SGML Greek Math entities -- solution


From: Ian Collier
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Display of SGML Greek Math entities -- solution
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:37:32 +0100

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:36:23AM -0700, Steve White wrote:
> The SGML 'Α' is not synonymous with the numeric character 
> reference 'Α', Henry.  Generally, the numeric character references 
> such as 'Α' refer to a character **in the document's character set**.

Sorry, this is not so.  HTML 4.01 is quite explicit that:

  The syntax "&#D;", where D is a decimal number, refers to the
  ISO 10646 decimal character number D.

[http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#entities]

Please note that the "document character set" in HTML 4.01 is ISO 10646
(defined in section 5.1 of the above document).  This is distinct from
each individual document's character encoding (which, to confuse
matters, is specified using the word "charset" in the Content-Type
header).

imc

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