- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:21:55 +0300
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
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. > This is after all, after everything, even autodetection, has failed. > Some encoding must be used to interpret the bytes into characters. > Why prefer a legacy encoding here? Because the autodetection has already recognized UTF-8 with a high probability, so there are only legacy encodings left at this point. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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