[AlecSchueler]

I refuse to believe any standard considered fit for use in 2024 allows absolutely no special characters via escape sequences.

[switch007]

Councils can barely afford standards fit for for use in 1994, unfortunately

[AlecSchueler]

Can't the government fund a single open standard? Every council is now individually paying to license this broken spec.

[edent]

You can make that suggestion at https://github.com/co-cddo/open-standards

That's the UK Government's discussion space for adopting open standards.

(I used to work there.)

[AlecSchueler]

Thanks, I will do!

I'm a big fan of the UK government's commitments to open standards and their whole IT philosophy in general.

That said local councils usually give me quite the opposite feeling. I will definitely look into your suggestion in the hope of seeing some trickle-down!