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- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:55:01 -0000
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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "ESW Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by DavidClarke: http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoEncoding The comment on the change is: Added comparison images ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internally, computers store characters as numeric codes. The relationship between these numbers and the characters they represent is the character encoding. == Why does this cause problems? == - When different computer systems use different character encodings it is oftne produces an unreadable result. [[DRC I think I should have a graphic here illustrating the result e.g. A little Japanese encoded as UTF-8 but displayed as iso2022-jp]] + When different computer systems use different character encodings it is often produces an unreadable result. For example : + http://www.dragonthoughts.com/w3/hiraganautf8asiso8859-1.gif should appear as http://www.dragonthoughts.com/w3/hiraganautf8.gif == Why should I care? == If other people need to read your content, then the character encoding settings must be compatible, of the recipients can't read it.
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