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. -- 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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