Re: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters

[Samuel W. Heywood]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 11:07:34 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:

> Hi

> "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> SH> Yes, I realize that there are more special characters than just 128;
> SH> however, 128 different characters is enough for most European
> SH> languages.

> But why should european characters be included and eg Asians not in a
> standardized characterset ?? :)

Hello:

It appears that ascii was written for Europeans only.  In a code written
for just 7 bits it is possible to accomodate most European languages.  With
just a 7-bit code it might not be possible to accomodate even just one Asian
language, such as Mandarin Chinese, which has several thousand characters, so
I am told.

It would certainly be good if there were a universal standardized character
set that would work with all the world's languages, to include even ancient
Egyptian, Mayan, and Aztec hyroglyphics and an entire host of ancient
symbols and scripts.

Let us try to deconstruct the Tower of Babel.  Abolishing Java Script and
Active X would be a very good start <vbg>.

All the best,

Sam Heywood
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