- From: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:36:30 +0200
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>, "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
> "Don't worry too much about this for now. utf-8 is the universal > character set […]" No. UTF-8 is by no means a character set. It is a character encoding for the Unicode set. [1] I’ve changed "character set" to "character encoding" in the wiki. Yet "the character encoding of your documents: the range of different characters you want to use" still does not make much sense. Range of characters means actually a character set, and it’s about the characters used in the HTML source code, not the characters used in the page content. The latter cannot be changed, it’s always the Unicode character set. [2] Gunnar [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding#what [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-doc-charset
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