Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > So where does Windows 1252 as default for Bengali, Tamil etc fit in here? a rhetorical question? maybe because the dominance of English in Indian web content? And before the uptake of Unicode for Indian web content, most developers used hacks? Its always difficult to explain to end users why web pages in their languages don't display correctly in web browsers, or why they can't use their language in common web 2.0 or social networking environments. By end users , i mean users with limited IT knowledge. 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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