[thelist] How does one choose a charset?

[Maryanna Nesina]

Hi, Warner,
I spouse that you are not able to worry about it if you have English pages
only.
As for another languages, it may  depend upon  server solution.
For example we have several Russian encoding tables, 2 of them are the main:
koi8-r (koi8-u for Ukraine) - is Unix standard and win1251 - Windows for
Russian local. So commonly we MUST write smth like that:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1251">.
As for me, I have all the pages duplicated in /win and /koi server
directories and my users are offered to choose an appropriate encoding.
But there can be another solutin:  the Russian Appache project decode pages
on the fly. So using this server, one MUST NOT write such a meta-tags for
not to upset the browsers :)) As for CGI, these things should also to be
considered

Best regards,
Maryanna Nesina
mar at mail.bio.pu.ru
http://www.bio.pu.ru/~mar/
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> Hi all
>
> I have a quick question, and it's something that I've always been curious
> about. With all the many various charsets out there, how does one go about
> deciding which to use at the top of Web documents? What are the
> distinctions say, between using US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 and ISO-8859-1?
How
> important is it to be accurate in your selection of a charset?
>
> Maybe someone could help me by answering this once and for all. :)
>
> Thanks
> Warren Rohner
>
>
>
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