You're right, Ian.

This changes my understanding of when the replacement of the
numerical character references must occur in the conversion of
the multi-byte CJK character sets.

And it makes another thing I posted this morning incorrect.

I still can't understand why I can't see the numerical references
in Henry's page.  Is it a setting of some sort?

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:37:32 +0100
Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:36:23AM -0700, Steve White wrote:
>> The SGML '&Alpha;' is not synonymous with the numeric character 
>> reference '&#913;', Henry.  Generally, the numeric character references 
>> such as '&#913;' 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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