RE: non-sgml characters

What an interesting thread, this. But I have a basic question. 

Let us say I am building a website today. It is multilingual, and needs
to cater to people who don't quite know what a "browser" is. They just
use ""the internet", which could be IE 3 or Netscape 4 -- just because
it did not occur to them that they need to upgrade (and I speak of a
very big firm here in Tokyo). Currently, let us say we use big5 for
Chinese and Shift_JIS for Japanese content respectively. 

Assuming this is old hat, how should we build websites that allow us to
be future-proof and support standards? Specifically, how should we
convert to UTF-8 etc? Is there any suggested guideline we should follow?
Any tool that allows us to convert big5 formatted text to UTF-8 text? 

Would appreciate some insight. 

Thanks,
Shashank

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2002 07:58:35 UTC