Posted by J.O. Aho on 04/08/07 10:16

I V wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:55:29 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:

>> iso-8859-1 does only support a-zA-Z and some national characters used
>> mainly in western and northern Europe and do not support any form of
>> Chinese characters. It supports 256 "characters", which hardly would be
>> enough for any form of Chinese alone.
>
> While that's true, iso-8859-1 encoded documents can still include any
> unicode characters through the use of &#... sequences.

Sure you can use HTML entities to represent character that isn't supported in
the character setup you save your html-files, but it's still not optimal for a
big5 site to use iso-8859-1 with HTML entities and remember that this only
works in a html browser that supports HTML entities for Unicode characters
(most modern should do). You will not get a good representation on search
engines and searching will not work well.

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//Aho

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