Re: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters

[Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton]

>At the risk of opening another can of worms here...

Here goes :)

>there is a tendency for popular American reference sources
>to ignore the other 5.7 billion people on the planet.

5.7?  I thought we were still at about 5.  Anyway,  it's not just the
Americans.  Here in the UK anything that comes from America is called
"worldwide".  So there are worldwide singers,  worldwide films,  worldwide
decisions :).  If it's for anywhere except america or the UK it's "ethnic".

Anyway,  concerning the ASCII "worldwide" (ahem) standard.  There are
several accepted standard for characters 128 to 255 and e-mail messages
generally announce which charset they use in the header.  That seems to be
good enough for Languages that use the Latin alphabet.  I don't know what
it's like for Cyrillic and greek alphabets though.  Do they only use
characters 128-255 or do they ditch the ASCII code altogether? 

Charles