[5804] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: ISO charsets; Unicode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian L. Mogensen)
Mon Sep 26 22:14:15 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 03:12:21 +0100
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From: "Christian L. Mogensen" <mogens@CS.Stanford.EDU>
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Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit writes:
> Not in this particular instance, no. In the general case of Aramaic
> etc yes it is currently a problem. There has been some discussion on
> the list before about this: I seem to remember that we learned that
> SGML does not have the expressive power to say that this here
> paragraph is in ISO 8859-9 or shift-JIS or whatever.
Is there | Can we reach a consensus about what needs to be added for
this to happen - it seems like an eminently useful extension. How was
the SGML community proposing to handle the Greek/English dictionary?
How would we do it on the web? (Inline graphics is not the answer I'm
looking for...)
Christian "off to comp.text.sgml or whatever it's called"
