Re: Character set question

From: Bertilo Wennergren (bertilow@chello.se)
Date: Sun, Mar 18 2001

  • Next message: Nick Kew: "Re: Character set question"

    Message-ID: <00f101c0afa2$5b885d00$536859d5@chello.se>
    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.
    
    #####################################################################
                             Bertilo Wennergren
                     <http://purl.oclc.org/net/bertilo>
                            <bertilow@chello.se>
    #####################################################################