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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Different character encodings used to be one of the biggest obstacles of interoperability between computers. + === Be sure other people can see your message === + For example : + If a web site expects to display the following using the UTF-8 encoding + http://www.dragonthoughts.com/w3/hiraganautf8.gif but the web browser incorrectly assumes that the page uses ISO8859-1 then the following will appear + http://www.dragonthoughts.com/w3/hiraganautf8asiso8859-1.gif + == Interoperability - or how not to make content unreadable? == - - === Be sure other people can see your message === + One of the simplest steps to prevent the incorrect display of text is to include explicit information in documents or web pages about their encoding. + When the document has been saved it is essential to check it. === Be sure you can read information from other sources === @@ -33, +39 @@ 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 often produces an unreadable result. For example : + When different computer systems use different character encodings it is often produces an unreadable result. - 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. @@ -47, +52 @@ == Background == Historically, different types of computer system from different countries or manufacturers have used different character encodings. - - '''[[RI''' This heading should be either 'answer' or 'background' for an FAQ. Take note that that will limit the level of nesting you go to.]] Most people have received an email or other document from a foreign source, that displays as apparently random characters. This is often because the receiving program is not configured to support the same encoding '''[[RI''' same what? You haven't defined or described 'encoding' yet. (Nor do you later ;-) ]] of the original document.Received on Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:45:56 GMT
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