- From: Rick den Haan <rick.denhaan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:29 +0200
- To: "'James Graham'" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: <public-html-comments@w3.org>
James Graham wrote: > I don't see what you're trying to do here that can't be achieved by simply > using an encoding for the document that covers all the characters you want. > UTF-8 would be an ideal choice. Absolutely. You know that, I know that, the people on this list know that, but there will be plenty of developers out there facing this problem that have never heard of UTF-8, and will run into problems when trying to put Russian text in a document that doesn't use an encoding covering Russian characters. There's also another interesting problem which has nothing to do with HTML per se, but with UTF-8 and the PHP/MySQL combination [1]. Somewhat off-topic, but related, I feel. Cheers, Rick. [1]: http://www.papascott.de/archives/2007/05/05/corrupted-utf-8-characters-with- php-and-mysql/
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