On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > > > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:15, Phillips, Addison wrote: >> >>> Setting UTF-8 as a default may produce the dreaded "black >>> diamonds" on the screen. But so too choosing the wrong encoding at >>> (relative) random. >> >> The thing is, the indication of the user's locale is not random >> data on a personal computer. It's works rather well when people >> read Web pages in their local language and in English, which is the >> common thing to do. >> > in that case you'd need to implement language specific encoding fall > backs rather than geographical fullbacks. > Many browsers in fact do this based on the user's primary language rather than by geography. Regards, Maciej
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