- From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:16:23 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote in news:4.2.0.58.J.20030608155637.07447af8@localhost: > They could always use numeric character references >> (which work better anyway). > > Would you ever want to try to edit a Japanese Web > page with numeric character references? I would of course use an authoring tool and write the Japanese characters directly. The authoring tool would be responsible for encoding the characters as bytes. > Why would they work better in such a case? There are in my experience tons of search engines and other software (e.g. blogging software and browsers) which have problems displaying/handling UTF-8 encoded text (they just handle the bytes *as if* it was in their default encoding, usually ISO-8859-1). Using numeric character references solve this problem. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
Received on Monday, 9 June 2003 02:16:47 UTC