[ESW Wiki] Update of "geoUnicodeConsiderationsWhenUpgrading" by RichardIshida

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  = FAQ: Upgrading from language-specific legacy encoding to Unicode encoding =
  
  == Question: What should I consider when upgrading my web pages from legacy encoding to Unicode encoding? ==
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  UTF-8 is the Unicode encoding consistently used for web pages:
  
     * Better compatibility with legacy data, where that legacy data uses ASCII as the 128 codepoints in ASCII match the first 128 codepoints in UTF-8.
-    * No byte order problems as UTF-8 is 8-bit.
+    * No byte order problems as UTF-8 is 8-bit.'''[[RI''' I'd leave out the ' as UTF-8 is 8-bit']]
  
  === How well is Unicode supported for my end users? ===
  
@@ -51, +39 @@

  
  Modern browsers support Unicode:
  
-    * Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)
+    * Internet Explorer 6 (Windows) [[RI I think earlier versions of IE also supported Unicode, right?]]
     * Firefox 1.0 
     * Mozilla 1.4
     * Opera 7.0
@@ -72, +60 @@

     * BSD
     * Mac OS X
  
- Standard installation of an operating system includes suitable fonts for the language selected by the user. Fonts not included in a standard installation can usually be added via menu options; they can also be downloaded. Some languages currently require a font download; these languages include Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali.
+ Standard installation of an operating system includes suitable fonts for the language selected by the user. Fonts not included in a standard installation can usually be added via menu options; they can also be downloaded. Some languages currently require a font download; these languages include Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali. [[RI I'm not clear about this. On what platform - all? ]]
  
  Commonly available Unicode fonts (commercial and open source) are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truetype TrueType] and the more recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentype OpenType].
  
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  ==== Rendering software ====
  
- Multilingual text rendering engines are built into operating system and browser installation.
+ Multilingual text rendering engines are built into operating system and browser installation. [[RI we should explain that this is typically needed for 'complex scripts' such as ...]]
  
     * Windows: Uniscribe
     * Macintosh: Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging, which replaced the WorldScript engine for legacy encodings.
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  You should ensure that you change the [http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc Tutorial: character encoding declaration] from legacy to Unicode. 
  
-    * HTTP header content-type, eg, Content-Type: text/html; charsetutf-8
+    * HTTP header content-type, eg, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
-    * HTML head, eg, <meta http-equiv"Content-Type" content"text/html; charsetutf-8"/>
+    * HTML head, eg, <meta http-equiv"Content-Type" content"text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  
  === Further reading ===

Received on Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:29:09 UTC