- From: Tristan Nitot <tristan@nitot.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:51:24 +0200
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
Mark Stosberg wrote: >>>provided that you serve them as text/html (but this applies >>>trivially to application/xhtml+xml), you can add (or amend an >>>existing entry) the following directive: >>>AddType text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 html >>> >>> > >Thanks for the responses. So both "iso-8859-1" and "utf-8" have been >recommended for us as the default character encoding type. >Is there a particular rule of thumb about which to use, or is the >central issue: "either one is better than none"? > > each directive has good and bad side. UTF-8 is quite universal, but you'll have to use html entities (such as "é" for "é") instead of accented (non-ascii) characters. This makes accented text painful to read and edit. using 8859-1 allows you to insert accented characters in your html, provided they belong to the latin-1 charset . This is the solution that I use, because I write in French and in English only. If I wanted to use characters outside of the iso-8859-1 charset, (e.g. for czech) I'd have to use html entities or switch to UTF-8. --Tristan PS: I'm not an I18n guru, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. -- Contributeur Mozilla et OpenWebGroup http://mozilla.org/ : Efficiency, safety and liberty for browsing. http://openweb.eu.org/ : pour apprendre les standards. http://standblog.com/ : un blog sur les standards. http://pompage.net/ : de saines lectures à propos des standards.
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