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On a nonempty compact Hausdorff space, let continuous nonnegative functions decrease pointwise. Their suprema decrease to a finite number $L$. For every $t<L$, the sets $\{f_n\ge t\}$ are nonempty nested closed sets; compactness gives a common point with limit value at least $t$. Thus the supremum of the pointwise limit is $L$. The limit need not be continuous, and this conclusion does not claim uniform convergence as in the Dini theorem.

A uniform algebra on a compact Hausdorff space $K$ is a closed complex subalgebra of $C(K)$, with the supremum norm, containing the constants and separating points. Evaluation embeds $K$ continuously and injectively in the character space of an algebra. The embedding is a homeomorphism onto a closed subset because its domain is compact and its target is Hausdorff. Extra characters need not be point evaluations on the specified $K$.