- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:54:21 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, ishida@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: > > Elsewhere, I've seen it recommended elsewhere that I encode my > > documents as ansi, and then just use the Latin-1 char set (ISO > > 8859-1) with no escapes (assuming I can do this), > > ISO-8859-1 apparently is synonymous with ANSI/Windows-1252 on the Web - > but I don't know the details. Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO 8859-1, containing 16 characters that aren't assigned in 8859-1. > If your document actually only contains ASCII characters - or if all > non-ASCII characters are escaped, then it should work. But I don't see > why it should work if it has unescaped non-ASCII characters, unless > there were a mislabeling going on ... It wouldn't, except that some browsers ignore the encoding declarations if sniffing the document tells them otherwise. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. --Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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