Posted by Nikita the Spider on 07/17/06 14:53

In article <1153147164.996213.29840@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
"Pat" <GTQWVOPHMEAQ@spammotel.com> wrote:

> Would google and other search engines support the indexing of
> non-English UTF-8 encoded websites?

Yes.


> Most chinese website indexed on google appears to be
> - for Traditional Chinese, charset=big5" encoding=ANSI
> - For Simplified Chinese, charset=gb2312 encoding=ANSI

I don't have any experience with Asian encodings but my guess is that
big5 is preferable to UTF8 because it is more efficient (i.e. takes up
less space) when most of the characters are Asian. If you don't mind
fatter pages, UTF8 should be fine.

HTH

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