RE: Decimal Unicodepoints

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 04:27:44 EDT

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David Starner wrote:
> Yes, I too wonder why the Web people would chose decimal for
> thier Unicode references, [...]

Probably because (one of) the most widespread browsers did not support
hexadecimal entities till not much time ago.

_ Marco

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