- From: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:55:30 +0100
- To: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Cc: "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
On 10 Aug 2011, at 20:36, Gunnar Bittersmann wrote: >> "Don't worry too much about this for now. utf-8 is the universal >> character set […]" > > No. UTF-8 is by no means a character set. It is a character encoding for the Unicode set. [1] > > I’ve changed "character set" to "character encoding" in the wiki. > > Yet "the character encoding of your documents: the range of different characters you want to use" still does not make much sense. Range of characters means actually a character set, and it’s about the characters used in the HTML source code, not the characters used in the page content. > > The latter cannot be changed, it’s always the Unicode character set. [2] > > Gunnar > > [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding#what > [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-doc-charset Thanks for the feedback Gunnar - this is useful, and much appreciated.
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