On 2012/07/17 17:22, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
And an argument was put forward in the WHATWG mailinglist earlier tis year/end of previous year, that a page with strict ASCII characters inside could still contain character entities/references for characters outside ASCII.
Of course they can. That's the whole point of using numeric character references. I'm rather surprised that this was even discussed in the context of HTML5.
For instance, early on in 'the Web', some appeared to think that all non-ASCII had to be represented as entities.
Yes indeed. There's still some such stuff around. It's mostly unnecessary, but it doesn't hurt.
Regards, Martin.
