[tei-council] Revised AB

[Syd Bauman]

> >> If you are going to do anything with characters you need WD. You
> >> can get through a whole lifetime of encoding without needing to
> >> touch either NH or CE, fortunately.

> > Well, yes, but very few projects need to do anything with
> > characters.

> I've never been involved with a single project which could survive
> using ISO-8859-1...

Who said anything about the 191 characters in 8859-1? This is XML:
you don't need WD until you want characters outside the over 100,000
available in Unicode (or glyph variants).