- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:23:35 +0100
- To: "Harley Rosnow" <Harley.Rosnow@microsoft.com>, "Wayne pollock" <wpollock@hccfl.edu>
- Cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi>, "public-html-comments@w3.org" <public-html-comments@w3.org>, "Adrian Bateman" <adrianba@microsoft.com>
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:50:06 +0100, Wayne pollock <wpollock@hccfl.edu> wrote: > But security is vital, so I agree it is not wise to change the order. I > guess the best procedure is to convert all files on a server to a single > encoding. (While I like UTF-8 too, I can see where that is biased > against non-Western languages and no single byte encoding will work well > for everyone.) Using UTF-8 always is fine, even for non-Western languages: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0087.html There are also some other reasons why you would want to use UTF-8: http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/09/utf-8-reasons -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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