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Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/27/33 11:52
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:20:45 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I'd keep it to one character encoding throughout - editing is too
>> error prone otherwise.
>
>It's by no means essential to author in the same encoding as the
>server will be serving out. As any long-standing Mac user would
>be able to confirm.
I agree with that much - I'm thinking of the case where you need to use
two different ISO-8859-* encodings to serve content. That's just a pain
to manage, I'd rather go with UTF-8 throughout. It's not so bad for
English, which has a restricted character set and works fine in almost
any encoding, but I'm currently worrying about simultaneously managing
both Czech and Arabic (and of course English) on a multi-developer
project.
>By the way, if you *do* use utf-8 then the file sizes will be larger
>than if you used the language-appropriate 8bit coding such as
>iso-8859-7 for Greek.
File sizes for text are swamped by your first JPG
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