Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/19/06 02:16

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Toby Inkster wrote, quoting a page that I'm not
seeing here:

> Yohan N. Leder wrote:
>
> > print "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
>
> ISO-8859-1 doesn't include a euro sign.

Why would that matter? € works well, across a wide range of
browsers, new and old.

> Try ISO-8859-15 instead.

Oh no. There is really NO point in coding HTML in iso-8859-15.
Browsers were already supporting utf-8 fairly well, before support for
8859-15 was introduced. I really could not advise using 8859-15 to
code web pages.

Its use for coding *plain* text is a different matter, for sure.

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist#NoteWin

regards

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