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Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 12/19/05 06:51
"Dan" <dan@tobias.name> skrev i meddelandet
news:1134965394.324928.216790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Tony Vella wrote:
> > I am preparing a series of philatelic html pages (lots of text and a few
> > scans of stamps) which will include alpha-characters (accents) in
Italian,
> > French, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish. The pages I have finished in
draft
> > form so far I have encoded UTF-8 but I have just been told that 99% of
the
> > world will not be able to read them and that I should go through all the
> > pages and re-encode them "western european - windows (1252)". I guess
what
> > I would like to know is what encoding would be most effective for these
> > particular languages. Any advice and pointers will be appreciated.
>
> While UTF-8 is actually very widely supported, and thus there's no
> reason to change your encoding from this (if your server sends a proper
> content-type header indicating the encoding), the Western European
> languages you are using should work all right in the standard Western
> encoding iso-8859-1 as well. Avoid windows-1252; it's a proprietary
> Microsoft set.
>
> --
> Dan
I am using
iso-8859-1 at the moment but I am going to change it into UTF-8 to add the
pages in Russian and Chinese
(just now I have little in these languages)
--
Luigi Donatello Asero
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/sv/oversattning.php
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