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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 01 Feb 1997 13:20:33 +0100
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Michael Sperber (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
> >>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> 
> sb> In the case of &nbsp;, I agree.  Not so for the other ISO Latin-1
> sb> characters.
> 
> But the standard character set of HTML *is* ISO Latin-1.  (Someone
> correct me if I'm wrong.)  These entities don't need to be there.

Entities do need to be there in symbolic forms, if the user has
written them that way.  The fact that the standard character set is
iso-8859-1 can be easily overriden/customized (see my mail with the
META example; the same can be achieved with HTTP Content-Type
header).

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