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Subject: 
Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.faq
Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:52:02 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
> In lugnet.faq, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> > Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) and Sproaticus
> > (jsproat@geocities.com) writes lots of stuff:

> I'd like to see Latin-1 as the raw data format, with conversions to the
> presentation formats of:  (a) HTML for webpages and (b) Latin-1/ASCII for
> text documents (i.e. news postings).

Fine.

> >  - Should we use ASCII or Latin-1 for the content character
> >    set?
> 
> Is this a choice between
> 
>    (a) 7-bit ASCII with HTML entities:
>           > < " & ü ®
> 
> and
> 
>    (b) 8-bit Latin-1 with no encoded characters -- directly uses:
> > < " & ü ®
> ?

Yes (but the first four _are_ ASCII characters).

> I prefer (b) over (a) because (b) is much easier to edit, and less error
> prone.

Me too. And yes.

Play well,

Jacob

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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) I'd like to see Latin-1 as the raw data format, with conversions to the presentation formats of: (a) HTML for webpages and (b) Latin-1/ASCII for text documents (i.e. news postings). (...) Is this a choice between (a) 7-bit ASCII with HTML (...) (27 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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