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From: "Bertilo Wennergren" <bertilow@chello.se>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>, "Mario Lia" <antilyrical@spamcop.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:55:40 +0100
Subject: Re: Character set question
Mario Lia:
> >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. (The "utf-8" declaration is not really necessary, but
> >it will help circumvent bugs in Netscape 4, and it is not wrong.)
> What is buggy in Netscape 4 ??
It can't show Unicode characters outside of the current character
encoding. So you'll have to turn on utf-8 (or utf-7) to make Netscape
realise it can show such characters.
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