A challenge to the ASCII proponents.

Fri Jul 18 02:57:40 EDT 2003

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:11:56AM +0000, Bengt Richter wrote:
> ====< giginooskoo.html >======================================================
> <html><head>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-8859-7">
> <style> H1 {font-size: 72pt} </style>
> <title>gignooskoo</title></head><body>
> <h1>γίγνωσκω</h1>
> </body></html>
> ==============================================================================

Actually, you don't need the "CHARSET=iso-8859-7". It would be required 
if you used the bytes 227, 223, 227, 237, 249, 243, 234, 249 to represent 
the characters. With numeric character references you can embed any 
character from the UCS repertoire regardless of the charset used.

    Oren