Re: [SumsaultRT #212] iso-8859-1 vs. utf-8 from Karl Dubost on 2003-09-25 (public-evangelist@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:58:13 -0400
To: <ishida@w3.org>
Cc: <public-evangelist@w3.org>, "'Tristan Nitot'" <tristan@nitot.com>
Message-Id: <11B31B8D-EF71-11D7-AD8F-0003934BEBF0@la-grange.net>

Le jeudi, 25 sep 2003, à 06:43 America/Montreal, Richard Ishida a écrit 
:
>>
>> UTF-8 is quite universal, but you'll have to use html
>> entities (such as
>> "&eacute;" for "é") instead of accented (non-ascii) characters. This

>
> Hmm.  I think you somehow have this the wrong way round.  UTF-8 means
> you have no need to use character entities, since it covers the whole
> Unicode repertoire.  As you say, its because ISO 8859-1 only covers

:) let's clear up a bit. Both of you are right, in some context.

* If you have an editor (authoring tool) which can NOT input utf-8 in 
your text and you still want to use utf-8 for your document. You can 
use this low tech method which is
	é -> &eacute; for example, so you will have only us-ascii characters 
in your document and us-ascii is a subset of utf-8.

* If you have an editor which can input utf-8. Just type your accents.


BTW, it would be good that someone on the mailing-list makes a list of 
all editors and their support of utf-8.

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