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Subject: 
Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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