Sam Heywood wrote:
>�Hola! Saludos � todos:
�Hola amigo! (and there my spanish knowledge more or less ended)
>Why is HTML programmed in such a way so as to not perform a one-for-one
>rendering of high ascii characters? IMHO, it would seem a good idea if
>all HTML viewers and text-to-HTML converters were to adhere to the
>international ascii standard. This would eliminate many problems in
>attempting to correspond with someone in a language that is other than one's
>own.
I think that the Internet as a whole uses the ASCII standard very well,
however what you miss is the fact that ASCII is 7-bits (0 to 127). The
extra bit is used difrently around the world. I would even assume that when
the first Internet applications came 7-bits "was enough for anyone" ;)
Why HTML isn't using for instance the US ASCII table is probably since it
wasn't made by someone in the US. The diffrences are small between most
western european and the NA - but they do exist. I can only assume that
there are more diffrences with the rest of the world.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
