Sebastian Redl wrote:

> Not true. To me, this suggests that the whole construct is only valid in 
> character sets that have the ASCII set as a direct subset, such as UTF-8 
> and ISO-8859-*, but only after the meta may characters outside the ASCII 
> range appear.

I don't see how you can obtain those semantics from the prose :

>> The META declaration must be used only when the character encoding 
>> is organized such that ASCII-valued bytes stand for ASCII characters
>> (at least until the META element is parsed). 

This talks specifically about "ASCII-valued bytes", and says nothing at
all about non-ASCII-valued bytes.

Philip Taylor