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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 04/08/07 17:12
J.O. Aho wrote :
> 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).
Browser support for Unicode characters is not the most frequent issue in
such case; font support usually is. You can still have undisplayed
characters when, while using (named or numerical) character entities
because the font can not render (does not support) the referenced glyph.
> You will not get a good representation on search
> engines and searching will not work well.
GΓ©rard
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