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Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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lugnet.faq
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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?
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> Is this a choice between
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> (a) 7-bit ASCII with HTML entities:
> > < " & ü ®
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> and
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> (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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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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