Andrew Daviel wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to META2 as I don't have much practical experience
> with 8-bit coding (beyond loading a lot of fonts and trying out
> content-type ; charset).
>
> I seem to remember in DC/HTML4 one could use a LANG modifier to
> specify the language of metadata, but I can't remember what was specified
> for the charset; I think maybe one could not override the document
> charset.
An entire HTML document has a single charset. DC has nothing to say about
the charset, as it lies outside the DC realm.
> Indeed, I'm a bit vague on whether one can use HTML reserved characters
> like "&", "<" inside the HTML META CONTENT string.
>
> The question as I interpret it is whether one can put
> <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Bienvenu á Jorg">
> or need
> <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Bienvenu á Jorg">
Yes, you can. You can also use numeric character references or the actual
characters. Only if you are using the actual characters is the charset
relevant.
> assuming one has content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 somewhere
An entity keeps its meaning regardless of the charset.
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> Andrew Daviel
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> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:50:21 -0500
> From: Jose Maria Zarco Perello <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: META Tags and high Ascci chars
>
> ¿Must I use high chars, or their equivalent HTML syntax?
> (eg.: á = á)
There is no such thing as "high Ascci chars".
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Misha
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