[thelist] Re: [css-d] charset standardization
Andrew Clover
and-evolt at doxdesk.com
Tue Apr 6 20:48:27 CDT 2004
Scott Blanchard <octigonuser at hotmail.com> wrote:
> should i use UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 as the charset of an xhtml document?
[f'uped to evolt; OT for CSS-d]
For English or Spanish either will do.
UTF-8 is a better choice if you might want to add other languages'
unusual characters without having to use escapes.
ISO-8859-1 is a better choice if you want to be able to edit the pages
with a text editor that doesn't support Unicode.
> What is the ramifications of using one over the other?
Little. Browser compatibility for both is pretty much universal these
days. (note: there are still some issues with using UTF-8 in e-mail, in
particular in Japan, but for the web it's fine.)
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Andrew Clover
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