[thelist] Non-Western characters -- what character encoding to use?

Anton Raath socket0 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 09:38:25 CST 2004


> If HTML templates for an international site has to cope with a large number
> of languages, including non-Western ones, what character encoding should I
> use? Languages may include Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

This article probably says more about it than we ever could:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

It's aimed at software developers specifically, but does a very decent
job of explaining why UTF-8 would be the way to go if you want your
pages to reach an international audience.

A!
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