On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Anthony Ettinger wrote: > utf8 is preferred... Perhaps - but that's not the question or problem here. > if it defaults to utf8, then more people will use it, This is wishful thinking. > if they have no idea what encoding they are at. Sure they know - but such authors don't know how to declare the encoding (charset) of a webpage. Perhaps they think also that the reader should manually select an encoding in his browser. But even if "charset" is missing, the author knows what he wants: West European letters in cp1252 or Cyrillic letters in cp1251, etc.Received on Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:04:06 GMT
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