Re: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters

[Bjorn Simonsen]

On  4 Mar 00 at 19:19, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
 
>  If I'm not mistaken, there are more than 128 "special characters"
> needed to be compatible with all languages around the world.
> 
>  Maybe it's time for a 16bit ASCII
> That would give us 256*256=65536 total characters available.
> "64k ought to be enough for everyone"<vbg>

Pretty close.. the total number is 49194 characters in latest version 
of Unicode (3.0) - but I guess they are still adding new ones...

For more info:
   "A tutorial on character code issues"
  <http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html>

   "Using national and special characters in HTML"
  <http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML/chars.html>

All the best,
Bjorn