[thelist] Web Character Sets
kasimir-k
evolt at kasimir-k.fi
Tue Mar 21 17:29:05 CST 2006
Joshua Hmielowski scribeva in 21/03/2006 17:13:
> What steps do I need to take to have the ability to change
> not only the language but to change the char set that is being used?
If you use UTF-8, you don't need to change the char set at all.
> -What is required for a web page to display a different character set?
The page doesn't display it, the borwser displays it according to what
the page (or server) tells it.
> -When updating these characters to a web page, does your computer
> need to have that language as the default for that program?
no.
> -What "meta /content-type" supports each of these characters? or
> does every language have it's own content-type charset to be
> specified on each html page?
It's about my bed time, so instead of a lengthy reply I just point you to:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html
and especially the first article:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
.k
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