On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
at 08:24 PM, "Alan J. Flavell" <flav...@ph.gla.ac.uk> said:>I think you mean "multiple character encoding schemes".
Yes, although a different character set would imply a different
encoding scheme.
Absolutely not. That's the whole point!
In (X)HTML you can (if you so choose) represent any Unicode character
by means of a markup string coded in us-ascii, even. The use of other
encoding schemes is merely a convenience when the desired character
repertoire fits a particular pattern, but whichever encoding scheme
you choose, you still - in principle - have access to any other
Unicode character you need, by means of &-notation.
I could change any Unicode character to its html notation, if only I
had a way to find out the Unicode value of the characters in the string
I'm given. But given a random set of string inputs, possibly copy and
pasted from WordPerfect or Microsoft Word or BBedit on a Mac, I don't
know how to find the Unicode value of those characters.