[thelist] charset: Windows vs Western

Erika ekm at seastorm.com
Sat Aug 12 18:28:05 CDT 2006


Alrighty... Portugese/English website:

I got the xml lang thing figured out, but I have a question about 
charset.  On my Mac, I can view the doc with Windows-1251 and with 
Western (ISO-8859-1) and both work properly (UTF-8 not cutting it for 
Portugese).

As a Mac user of course I cringe when I see something labeled "Windows" 
because I'm thinking it's gotta break something somewhere, but maybe 
that's just "old-Microsoft" thinking?

Any advantages to selecting one charset over the other
Western (ISO-8859-1) vs Windows-1251

Thanks again... many thanks.

Erika




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