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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 21:42:37 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> > Agreed -- only &xxx; entities ought to be allowed in the headers,
> > IMO... And if the content charset is Latin-1 instead of pure 7-bit
> > ASCII, then this can be further reduced to < > " &.
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> If we ban HTML _elements_ from the headers, then we don't
> need to escape '<' and '>'. There has never been a need to
> escape '"'.
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> If we want to allow numeric character references outside
> Latin-1 (like '̥') we still have to escape ampersands.
> [...]
How is the Japanese language represented in HTML? I seem to remember seeing
a page a few weeks ago that seemed like it used 2-byte ShiftJIS... I'd be
shocked if they used 8-byte HTML entities.
Can we imagine any possible uses for characters above 255 that would be
useful as well as portable? (I can't.) If not, then there's not much sense
in allowing HTML elements or entities in the headers...just write < > & "
and >=128 characters directly.
--Todd
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| Todd: (...) It depends on the chosen encoding of the document. I would expect most people^H^H^H^H^Hrogrammers to use plain 16 bit Unicode BMP[1]. Since I am too lazy to get my computer to operate with another character encoding (than Latin-1), I (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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| (...) If we ban HTML _elements_ from the headers, then we don't need to escape '<' and '>'. There has never been a need to escape '"'. If we want to allow numeric character references outside Latin-1 (like '̥') we still have to escape (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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