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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 06/02/06 09:30
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Alan J. Flavell <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> scripsit:
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> > "Privetst...", does that make some kind of sense?
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> Surely, it's the start of a Russian word that means 'greeting'. (Of
> course, using such words in a document title is waste of precious
> real estate, but I digress.)
But it might be part of a trading name, I wouldn't dismiss it without
further study...
> > However, I think I'd prefer to start again from fresh materials!!
>
> Me too. And using UTF-8 for Russian isn't particularly efficient.
Right. Also, I think it's probably unwise to use a utf-8 BOM:
although it's technically legal, I have a hunch that (even when
correctly used) it'll disturb some browser/versions that are still in
use.
[snipped uncontentious remarks...]
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