History: character sets & HTML
... to understand the "bits on the wire"
The first HTML
[1992] -- ISO-8859-1 ("Latin-1")
HTML 2.0
[Nov 1995] -- ISO-8859-1
HTML 3.2
[Jan 1997] --
still
ISO-8859-1
RFC 2070
[Jan 1997]] -- Unicode (ISO-10646)
HTML "Cougar"
[2nd half 1997?] --
Unicode
Bert Bos