Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > Ian's table [1] right now says that "all other locales" should default > to Windows 1252. That would include localizations for those languages > you have in mind here also. > > [1] > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html#determining-the-character-encoding > I'd be inclined to look at system locale as well as UI locale, and what encodings are supported by the application and OS. And for many languages added to windows since win2000, the languages are only supported by Unicode, no new code pages have been defined. Similarly on other platforms. For some languages it may make sense to have a fall back encoding as a legacy encoding, where an appropriate legacy encoding is supported. But the reality is that web browsers don't support legacy encodings for many African, Central Asian, South Asian and South East Asian languages, and since the encoding support isn't there, the logical fall back encoding is UTF-8. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 Fax: +61-3-9639-2175 Email: andrewc@vicnet.net.au Alt email: lang.support@gmail.com http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/ http://www.openroad.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au http://www.slv.vic.gov.auReceived on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 02:03:21 GMT
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