Re: <draft-hoffman-char-lang-media-01.txt>

At 10:07 99/07/27 -0400, Al Gilman wrote:
> Maybe what Martin and I are reflecting is an SGML-slanted preference for
> terminology, but for backup on why one should not simply call CHARSET the
> "character set" see for example:
> 
>  HTML Document Representation
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#encodings
> 
> "character encoding" is fine.

This has nothing to do with SGML-slantedness, it's just plain old Math.

For more details, please see
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/charset-harmful.


Regards,   Martin.


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