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8859-1:1998 (also known as ISO Latin 1 or ISO-8859-1) as its default character set and
encoding. RFC 2070, Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language, eectively
changed the default character set for HTML to ISO 10646-1:1993 (Unicode), and also
extended HTML to be more suitable for multilingual purposes.
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e latest HTML speci-
cation is version 5.0.
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) now manages the internation-
alization aspects of HTML, and it provides documentation, tips, and test cases.
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In addition to HTML, there is also Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML),
which is HTML reformulated using XML. Perhaps as a best of both worlds, XHTML thus
combines the strength of HTML and the exibility of XML. e latest version of HTML,
specically version 5.0, brings HTML and XHTML back together.
CSS provides the web page author with more control over how web pages are presented,
through the specication of color, fonts, some aspects of layout, and other presentation-
related attributes. Given the multilingual nature of many fonts, there are clearly CJKV-
related implications when such fonts are specied through CSS.
Some companies, such as Microso and Netscape Communications, have dened their
own extensions to HTML in the past, in the form of additional tags that were above and
beyond the HTML specication proper, at least at