Re: Character set question

Liam Quinn:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Bertilo Wennergren wrote:

> > Actually coding anything outside of ASCII as "&#decimal_number;"
> > and declaring the "charset" as "utf-8", preferrably in the
> > http-header, is the safest bet of all. That can hardly fail
> > at all.

> But it will cause links containing "#" to fail in IE4 for Windows.

Only for some early versions of IE4, fortunately.

> So ISO-8859-1 is still preferred when you don't need characters outside
> ISO-8859-1.

Indeed. Declaring iso-8859-1 but using only ASCII is a very safe
choice (if you don't need any characters above 255).

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                         Bertilo Wennergren
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Received on Thursday, 8 March 2001 18:50:58 UTC