On 27/04/2001 18:40:41 Carl W. Brown wrote: [...] > It would be even worse to list all the code points in both hex and decimal. > It would create a lot of confusion. I just wish that the w3c folks have not > introduced decimal character encoding in HTML. Nobody but geeks look at the > HTML source. Decimal Numeric Character References (NCRs) were, AFAIK, inherited by HTML from SGML and, consequently, were not introduced by the W3C. On the contrary, the W3C has encouraged hex NCRs by adding them to HTML and by including them in XML from the start. Misha W3C I18N WG Chair > > Carl ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.