- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:48:54 +0200
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Andrew Cunningham On 09-10-14 05.27: > 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. So where does Windows 1252 as default for Bengali, Tamil etc fit in here? -- leif halvard silli
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