Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > >> It may work for an individual user. But, it doesn't sound like someone >> offering a localized browser product for Ossetian users inside Russia >> would have much success that way. >> > > It basically depends on what Ossetian users have been using before having > a dedicated localised product. > > There seems to be two fundamentally different approaches to fall back, when basing fall back on UI of language Selected a legacy encoding that fully supports the language, if the user agent does not support an appropriate encoding, 1) use UTF-8 as the fall back. 2) base selection of fall back legacy encoding on another language widely used by target user group, i.e. if language is a non-national language, select a national language and use that to choose the fall back legacy encoding. Although the second approach in some cases can draw ua developers into political disputes. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 Fax: +61-3-9639-2175 Email: andrewc@vicnet.net.au Alt email: lang.support@gmail.com http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/ http://www.openroad.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
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