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       Title     : Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language   
       Author(s) : F. Yergeau, G. Nicol, G. Adams, M. Duerst
       Filename  : draft-ietf-html-i18n-00.txt
       Pages     : 42
       Date      : 08/15/1995

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to 
create hypertext documents that are platform independent.  Up to the 
present time, the application of HTML on the World Wide Web was seriously 
restricted by its reliance on the ISO-8859-1 coded character set, which is 
appropriate only for Western European languages.  Despite this restriction,
HTML has been widely used with other languages, using other coded character
sets or character encodings, through various ad hoc extensions to the 
language.                                                

This document is meant to address the issue of the internationalization 
of HTML by extending the specification of HTML 2.0 and giving additional 
recommendations for proper internationalisation support.  A foremost 
consideration is to make sure that HTML remains a valid application of SGML, 
while enabling its use in all languages of the world.                

The "text/html; version=2.x" Internet Media Type [RFC1590] and MIME 
Content Type [RFC1521] is defined by this specification, taken together 
with the HTML 2.0 specification [HTML-2].                                                                  

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